Stern

(noun.) the rear part of a ship.

(noun.) United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920).

(adj.) severe and unremitting in making demands; 'an exacting instructor'; 'a stern disciplinarian'; 'strict standards' .

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• Jaelthe stern woman; sat apart, relenting somewhat over her captive; but more prone to dwell on the faithful expectation of Heber coming home. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• He cleared his vision with his sleeve, and the melting mood over, a very stern one followed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The paddles were placed in the middle of the boat, near the stern; and there was a double rudder, connected together by rods which were moved by a winch at the head of the vessel. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• If I do--Well, said madame, drawing a breath and nodding her head with a stern kind of coquetry, I'll use it! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The boat had a single paddle wheel in the middle near the stern, and was intended only for canal use, in the place of horses. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• By strange stern ways, and through much staining blood, those feet had come to meet that water. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I went back to the stern and showed her how to hold the oar. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• She was little changed; something sterner, something more robust--but she was my godmother: still the distinct vision of Mrs. Bretton. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Not the best opinion of the sterner sex? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• For a brief time I wandered, in the sweet guiding of love, far from the purpose to which I had been true under sterner discipline and in darker days. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• She saw nothing, but her son a little paler, a little sterner than usual. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Nor did he neglect the sterner duties of life while following the bent of his inclination toward the solving of the mystery of his library. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• I need a sterner dream. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Perhaps it would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I meant it for the best. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• It is usually so, except with the sternest of men. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• To this woman he gave Moore in charge, with the sternest injunctions respecting the responsibility laid on her shoulders. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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