stark
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
副词 adv.
英 /stɑːk/
美 /stɑɹk/
英文释义
动词 v.
- To stiffen.
形容词 adj.
- Hard, firm; obdurate.
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Severe; violent; fierce (now usually in describing the weather).
— Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.
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Strong; vigorous; powerful.
— Stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer.
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Stiff, rigid.
— His heauie head, deuoide of carefull carke, / Whose sences all were straight benumbd and starke.
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Plain in appearance; barren, desolate.
— I picked my way forlornly through the stark, sharp rocks.
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Naked.
— They bore me to a cavern in the hill Beneath that column, and unbound me there; And one did strip me stark; and one did fill A vessel from the putrid pool; one bare A lighted torch, and four with friendless care Guided my steps the cavern-paths along […]
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Complete, absolute, full.
— I screamed in stark terror.
副词 adv.
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Starkly; entirely, absolutely.
— He's gone stark, staring mad.
词源
词源 1
From Middle English stark, starc, from Old English stearc, starc (“stiff, rigid, unyielding, obstinate, hard, strong, severe, violent”), from Proto-West Germanic *stark, from Proto-Germanic *starkuz (“stiff, strong”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terg- (“rigid, stiff”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian sterc (“strong”), Dutch sterk (“strong”), Low German sterk (“strong”), German stark (“strong”), Danish stærk (“strong”), Swedish stark (“strong”), Norwegian sterk (“strong”), Icelandic sterkur (“strong”). Related to starch.
In the phrase stark naked: an alternation of Middle English stert naked, from stert (“tail”), a literal parallel to the modern butt naked.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian sterc (“strong”), Dutch sterk (“strong”), Low German sterk (“strong”), German stark (“strong”), Danish stærk (“strong”), Swedish stark (“strong”), Norwegian sterk (“strong”), Icelandic sterkur (“strong”). Related to starch.
In the phrase stark naked: an alternation of Middle English stert naked, from stert (“tail”), a literal parallel to the modern butt naked.
词源 2
From Middle English starken, from Old English stearcian (“to stiffen, become hard, grow stiff or hard”), from Proto-Germanic *starkōną, *starkēną (“to stiffen, become hard”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terg- (“rigid, stiff”). Cognate with German erstarken (“to strengthen”).
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