sturdy1
KK: [ˈstɝdɪ]
DJ: [ˈstǝːdi]
a.
- 健壯的，結實的；健康的
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The
sturdy young man removed the rock without effort.
那個壯實的小伙子沒費多大勁便把石塊搬開了。
- 堅固的，經久耐用的
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Children need
sturdy clothes.
孩子們需要結實的衣服。
- 堅強的，剛毅的；堅決的
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He was a
sturdy fighter for racial equality.
他是一個為種族平等而奮鬥的堅強戰士。
衍生
ad.
sturdily
n. [U]
sturdiness
辨析
sturdy2
KK: [ˈstɝdɪ]
DJ: [ˈstǝːdi]
adj.
(sturdier, sturdiest)
strongly and solidly built or made.
▸confident and determined:
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a sturdy independence.
n.
vertigo in sheep caused by a tapeworm larva encysted in the brain.
Derivative
- sturdied adj.
- sturdily adv.
- sturdiness n.
History
In medieval times sturdy meant ‘reckless, violent’ and ‘intractable, obstinate’. The word is a shortening of Old French esturdi ‘stunned, dazed’, and is thought to be based on Latin turdus ‘a thrush’: thrushes were formerly associated with drunkenness, possibly because of eating wine grapes. Interestingly, there is an old French phrase soûl comme une grive, which means ‘drunk as a thrush’.
