Discipline

(noun.) training to improve strength or self-control.

(noun.) the act of punishing; 'the offenders deserved the harsh discipline they received'.

(noun.) the trait of being well behaved; 'he insisted on discipline among the troops'.

(noun.) a system of rules of conduct or method of practice; 'he quickly learned the discipline of prison routine'; 'for such a plan to work requires discipline';.

(noun.) a branch of knowledge; 'in what discipline is his doctorate?'; 'teachers should be well trained in their subject'; 'anthropology is the study of human beings'.

(verb.) punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience; 'The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently'.

(verb.) develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control; 'Parents must discipline their children'; 'Is this dog trained?'.

霍华德编辑

• I will discipline my sorrowing heart to sympathy in your joys; I will be happy, because ye are so. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• These people were people like ourselves, with brains as busy and moody and inconsistent, and with even less training and discipline. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Now for that of discipline. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• What I had to do, was, to turn the painful discipline of my younger days to account, by going to work with a resolute and steady heart. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Discipline prevailed: in five minutes the confused throng was resolved into order, and comparative silence quelled the Babel clamour of tongues. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• For a brief time I wandered, in the sweet guiding of love, far from the purpose to which I had been true under sterner discipline and in darker days. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Under all these circumstances I concluded that drill and discipline were worth more to our men than fortifications. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• They continued for a time his disciplines of the complete subjugation of self; they had their goods in common, they had no bond but love. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The novel feature of Plato's pedagogy was the plan to educate the directing classes, men disciplined in his own philosophical and ethical conceptions. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Except where there is a disciplined disposition, the tendency is for the imagination to run loose. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Thereupon (1218) the great host of horsemen that Jengis Khan had consolidated and disciplined swept over the Pamirs and down into Turkestan. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They were sustained by what seemed an overwhelming force of disciplined troops. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In a wandering, fighting community the individual must be at once self-reliant and disciplined. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I was reinforced from time to time and the men were drilled and disciplined preparatory for the service which was sure to come. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Now they found a wall built against them, a firm government, and disciplined armies cutting them off from the grass plains. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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