stringency

基本解釋

The number of women who experience PMS depends entirely on the stringency of the definition of PMS.[23]
經(jīng)歷經(jīng)前綜合癥的婦女?dāng)?shù)量完全取決于經(jīng)期綜合癥定義的嚴(yán)格程度。
“Reduction in the stringency of employment protection is needed and could be balanced by an increase in the extent of accrual-based severance payments,” it said.
該組織稱(chēng)：“有必要降低就業(yè)保護(hù)的嚴(yán)格程度，并且可以相應(yīng)擴(kuò)大遞增型離職補(bǔ)償金的范圍?！?/li>
These compounds are then taken through successive rounds of screening (“secondary” screens) of increasing stringency in order to determine their suitability for “l(fā)ead optimization.”
這些化合物然后經(jīng)過(guò)一輪又一輪地增加嚴(yán)格性的篩選來(lái)決定它們是否適合于先導(dǎo)藥物優(yōu)化。

As unexpectedly high tax revenues keep pouring in, congressmen have surpluses, not stringency, on their minds.
ECONOMIST: The budget and Congress
For all the talk of fiscal stringency, tax rises and spending cuts are only beginning to bite.
ECONOMIST: Economic stumbles
By enacting legislation premised on incomplete and incorrect science, unnecessary regulatory stringency cost Americans untold billions of dollars.
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Financial stringency is a situation in which a government or person does not have much money or is trying not to spend much.