stern
adjective
uk/stɜːn/us/stɝːn/C2
severe, orshowingdisapproval:
严厉的，苛刻的a sternlook/warning/voice严厉的目光／警告／语气
She is her own sternestcritic.她对自己非常苛刻。
Journalistsreceiveda sternwarningnot to goanywherenear thebattleship.记者们受到严厉警告，不得靠近军舰。
If something, such as ajob, is stern, it isdifficult:
（工作等）严峻的，棘手的The country'spresidentisfacingthe sternesttestof hisauthoritysince he came topowerfiveyearsago.总统的权威正面临着上任5年以来最严峻的考验。
Severe
- an iron hand/fist in a velvet gloveidiom
- austere
- austerely
- authoritarian
- be heavy onsomeoneidiom
- brutally
- flaming
- harsh
- iron
- nonsense
- not stand any nonsenseidiom
- pitiless
- rigorously
- severity
- sharp
- sharply
- sharpness
- sternly
- sternness
- stiffly
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Complicated and difficult to do
Idiom
made of sterner stuff
stern
noun[C]
uk/stɜːn/us/stɝːn/sternnoun[C](SHIP)
the backpartof ashiporboat:
船尾；艉TheRedEnsign, theflagof the British Merchant Navy, israrelyseenthesedaysexcept on the sterns of a fewcruiselinersandcross-Channelferries.
Compare
bownoun(FRONT PART)
- Hedevisedthemethod, usedeversince, ofattachinganunderwatercableto the sterns of theships, and usingtugstotowthemrapidlyacrosscalmseas,backwards.
- When thebowbegantorisewe allcheered, but then wefoundthat the stern had beencrushedby theweightofwater.
- Wereachedthetipof Manhattan Island with a Staten Islandferrychasingourstern.
- The 23-year-oldskippersaid heheardaloudcrackfrom the stern before theboatsank.
Parts of ships & boats
- abaft
- bilge water
- boathook
- boiler room
- bowline
- cleat
- cockpit
- couchette
- escape hatch
- keel
- paddle
- periscope
- propeller
- spar
- steerage
- stem
- sun deck
- superstructure
- topsail
- waterline
sternnoun[C](PART OF BODY)
informal
a person'sbottom(= thepartof thebodythat yousiton)
The buttocks
- arse
- ass
- back end
- backside
- bot
- bottom
- bum
- bun
- buttock
- duff
- fanny
- fundament
- gluteal
- posterior
- prat
- rear
- rump
- seat
- tail
- tush