Rigid

(adj.) incapable of or resistant to bending; 'a rigid strip of metal'; 'a table made of rigid plastic'; 'a palace guardsman stiff as a poker'; 'stiff hair'; 'a stiff neck' .

(adj.) designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure .

(adj.) incapable of compromise or flexibility .

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• He was one of those rare men who are rigid to themselves and indulgent to others. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• And the rigid examination system that killed all intellectual initiatives has been destroyed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But conditions change whether statesmen wish them to or not; society must have new institutions to fit new wants, and all that rigid conservatism can do is to make the transitions difficult. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Among the more rigid socialists and reformers it is not customary to spend much time discussing mental habits. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It was so dark now you could only see the flakes blowing past and the rigid dark of the pine trunks. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• They fell into his, while her arms, extended but not rigid, kept him far enough off to let her surrendered face say the rest. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• The girl, standing pale and rigid against the farther wall, sought with ever-increasing terror for some loophole of escape. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• He should have addressed her at once in solemn accents, and with rigid mien. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He stood against assumptions, and insisted on rigid proof. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Yes, I was right: it was Mr. Brocklehurst, buttoned up in a surtout, and looking longer, narrower, and more rigid than ever. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Glancing at Holmes, I saw his face turn rigid, and he leaned forward in intense excitement. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Trifling variations in the ingredients, in the proportion and in the heating, made it either pliable as kid, tougher than ox hide, as elastic as whalebone, or as rigid as flint. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The really rigid and mechanical thing is the charter behind which Tammany works. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He was a man of such rigid refinement, that he would have starved rather than have dined without a white neckcloth. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• She is just to the conquered, but rigid. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I grant that in the rigid political conditions prevailing to-day a new issue is an embarrassment, perhaps a hindrance to the procedure of political life. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• They were not savage men either of them, though it appeared both were rigid, for they fined a delinquent who came considerably too late. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• You are rigid with me, and I deserve it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• In testing the recipes follow the directions with rigid care, and practice on a small quantity of the article until you get it right. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Clayton stood rigid, with raised spear. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• I raised his rigid limbs, I marked the distortion of his face, and the stony eyes lost to perception. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Mr. Rochester heard, but heeded not: he stood stubborn and rigid, making no movement but to possess himself of my hand. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• He remained rigid, his back to her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Miss Murdstone gave me her chilly finger-nails, and sat severely rigid. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Mr Lammle shrugged his shoulders, and Mrs Lammle sat rigid. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I saw full well that no spark of life existed in that ruined form, his features were rigid, his eyes glazed, his head had fallen back. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• For a moment his rigid countenance relaxed with a quiver of content: quickly bent up again, however, he went on,-- Vite à l'ouvrage! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• For notice how it ignores human wants and human powers--how it subordinates people to a rigid formula. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• For an instant he was rigid and motionless. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• No sooner had Yeobright gone from his mother's house than her face changed its rigid aspect for one of blank despair. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

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