| 词汇 | draconian |
| 释义 | draconian adjective formal usually disapprovinguk /drəˈkəʊ.ni.ən/ us /drəˈkoʊ.ni.ən/ Draconian laws, government actions, etc. are extremely severe, or go further than what is right or necessary: （法律、政府行为等）苛刻的，严厉的，严酷的 draconian laws/methods严酷的法律／苛刻的方法 draconian measureHe criticized the draconian measures taken by the police in controlling the demonstrators.他批评了警方在控制示威者时采取了过于严厉的措施。 draconian punishmentThe court handed down draconian punishments for the slightest infraction. draconian legislationMany people feel the legislation is too draconian. Life without parole seems a draconian sentence for a minor. The airline's baggage rules are ridiculously draconian. strict strictHer parents were very strict. firmI was always very firm with my children. take a hard line onThe school takes a hard line on bullying. authoritarianThe country was under the rule of an authoritarian leader. stringentStringent safety regulations were introduced after the accident. Severe an iron hand/fist in a velvet gloveidiom austere austerely authoritarian be heavy on someoneidiom brutally flaming flinty harsh non-authoritarian nonsense not stand any nonsenseidiom pitiless severely severity sharply sharpness stern sternly sternness draconian | American Dictionarydraconian adjective us/drəˈkoʊ·ni·ən/ (esp. of a rule, law, or punishment) extremely severe: The governor proposed draconian cuts in state aid to education. Examples of draconiandraconian The question as to why governments do not eradicate all misdemeanors by imposing draconian penalties is yet to be resolved. Regulation is pictured as a pyramid of activities, beginning with persuasion at the bottom, and ending with a variety of draconian penalties at the top. It would be very strange to see the rules for wills or contracts as draconian means of making testation-without-two-witnesses and promiseswithout-reciprocity impossible. Finally, there is the assessment of lawmakers thinking about adopting draconian legislation now-like our cur rent drug laws-to avert more draconian laws in the future. The context here is one in which all of society adopted a certain draconian punishment regime. Complicating this individual dilemma with arcane opinion, let alone draconian policy, rarely if ever helps. There we asked whether it was moral for a state to inflict some draconian punishment now if it thus averted more draconian punishment later on. The authorities soon backed away from these draconian measures, yet throughout the war salons operated under the most severe restrictions. British intervention might be the only way to avoid draconian punishment. Actual draconian punishment would not be carried out by a machine but by human beings. This is shaping up as a formidable defense of draconian punishment. We might look at law enforcement officials in a draconian regime in the same way. What the appropriate way is for thinking about draconian punishment is as yet undetermined. If there is a politics in these works, it is a politics of self-rule, however draconian or despotic. Even if they do decide to use what we call draconian measures to cut fertility, the outside world should applaud them for trying. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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