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strigil

/strij-uhl/US // ˈstrɪdʒ əl //UK // (ˈstrɪdʒɪl) //

严格,严格执行,严格控制,严格遵守

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an instrument with a curved blade, used especially by the ancient Greeks and Romans for scraping the skin at the bath and in the gymnasium.

Examples

  • A bronze strigil lay across the threshold, where it had been dropped in someone's hasty flight.

  • Galen generally followed the teaching of Hippocrates on gymnastics, and wrote a whole book on the merits of using the strigil.

  • The guttus was a small vessel with a narrow neck adapted for dropping oil on the strigil to lubricate its working edge.

  • Beside him, a diminutive figure of a nude boy holding a strigil.

  • Having warmed the fat of a squirrel in a strigil, instil it.