strict: [16] Strict was acquired direct from strictus, the past participle of Latin stringere ‘pull tight, tighten’ (source also of English prestige, strain, and stringent). The original literal sense ‘tight’ survived into English (‘She wildly breaketh from their strict embrace’, Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis 1592), but it has since given way to various metaphorical extensions.
Routed via Old French, strictus has given English strait, and English is also indebted to it for stress [14] (via the Vulgar Latin derivative *strictia) and stricture [14], not to mention prefixed forms such as constrain, constrict [18], distrain, distress, district, restrain, and restrict [16]. => constrain, constrict, distrain, distress, district, prestige, restrain, restrict, strain, stress, stricture, stringent
strict (adj.)
early 15c., "narrow, drawn in, small," from Latin strictus "drawn together, close, tight," past participle of stringere (2) "to draw or bind tight" (see strain (v.)). The sense of "stringent and rigorous" (of law) is first found in 1570s; of qualities or conditions generally, 1590s.
雙語例句
1. As pope he won wide support for his strict orthodoxy.
作為教皇他嚴守正統教義，贏得了廣泛的支持。
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2. Marine insurance is governed by a strict series of rules and regulations.
關于海險有一系列嚴格的規章制度對其作了規定。
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3. He has a reputation for being a strict disciplinarian.
他因是個嚴格紀律執行者而聞名遐邇。
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4. All members of the association adhere to a strict code of practice.
協會的所有成員都遵守一套嚴格的行為規范。
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5. They must each compose a poem in strict alliterative metre.