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(yǔ)例句
1. As pope he won wide support for his strict orthodoxy.
作為教皇他嚴(yán)守正統(tǒng)教義,贏得了廣泛的支持。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
2. Marine insurance is governed by a strict series of rules and regulations.