| 单词 | discipline |
| 释义 | discipline —disciplinal /dis"euh pleuh nl, -plin'l, dis'euh pluyn"l/, adj. —discipliner, n. /dis"euh plin/, n. , v. , disciplined, disciplining. n. 1. training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline. 2. activity, exercise, or a regimen that develops or improves a skill; training: A daily stint at the typewriter is excellent discipline for a writer. 3. punishment inflicted by way of correction and training. 4. the rigor or training effect of experience, adversity, etc.: the harsh discipline of poverty. 5. behavior in accord with rules of conduct; behavior and order maintained by training and control: good discipline in an army. 6. a set or system of rules and regulations. 7. Eccles. the system of government regulating the practice of a church as distinguished from its doctrine. 8. an instrument of punishment, esp. a whip or scourge, used in the practice of self-mortification or as an instrument of chastisement in certain religious communities. 9. a branch of instruction or learning: the disciplines of history and economics. v.t. 10. to train by instruction and exercise; drill. 11. to bring to a state of order and obedience by training and control. 12. to punish or penalize in order to train and control; correct; chastise. [1175-1225; ME < AF < L disciplina instruction, tuition, equiv. to discipul(us) DISCIPLE + -ina -INE2] Syn. 3. chastisement, castigation. 12. See punish. |
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