mindmap root((严格)) severe implies standards enforced without indulgence or laxity and may suggest harshness: the ~ dress of the Puritans. 清教徒 (severe有2个意思 1、严格严肃strict, serious, formal，又如a severe woman/architecture一个严肃的女人/严格的建筑风格 2、糟糕严重严峻very bad, serious, or harsh，如severe weather/damage/injuries /pain/punishment/criticism /challenge/situation恶劣的天气/严重的损坏/受伤/疼痛/严厉的惩罚/批评严峻的挑战/形势，这里表示1) stern stresses inflexibility and inexorability of temper or character: a ~ judge who seemed immune to pleas for mercy. austere stresses lack of warmth, color, or feeling and may imply rigorous restraint, simplicity, or self-denial: the view that modern architecture is ~, brutal, and inhumane. ascetic implies abstention from pleasure and comfort or self-indulgence as a measure of self- or spiritual discipline: the ~ life of monastic orders.