• adj. 強(qiáng)健的；健康的；粗野的；粗魯?shù)?/li>

來自拉丁語 robustus,強(qiáng)健的，強(qiáng)壯的，來自 robus,硬木材，特指橡木，來自 ruber,紅色的， 詞源同 ruby,red.因橡木紅色的樹心而得名，即像橡木一樣結(jié)實(shí)的。

robust

robust: [16] By a series of semantic twists, robust is related to red. It comes ultimately from Indo- European *reudh- ‘red’ (source of English red). This produced Latin rōbus, which was applied to a particular sort of oak tree with reddish wood. The oak being synonymous with strength, rōbus in due course came to mean ‘strength’. This was carried over into the derived rōbustus ‘firm, strong, solid’, from which English gets robust, and also into the verb rōborāre ‘strengthen’, source of English corroborate [16].
=> corroborate, red

robust (adj.)

1540s, from Middle French robuste (14c.) and directly from Latin robustus "strong and hardy," literally "as strong as oak," originally "oaken," from robur, robus "hard timber, strength," also "a special kind of oak," named for its reddish heartwood, from Latin ruber "red" (related to robigo "rust"), from PIE *reudh- (see red (adj.1)). Related: Robustly; robustness. Robustious (1540s) was a common form in 17c. (see "Hamlet" iii.2); it fell from use by mid-18c., but was somewhat revived by mid-19c. antiquarian writers.

1. The Neanderthals were very robust and quite different from us.

尼安德特時(shí)期的人非常強(qiáng)壯，和我們迥然不同。

來自柯林斯例句

2. He replied in characteristically robust style.

像以往一樣，他的回答鏗鏘有力。

來自柯林斯例句

3. She was almost 90, but still very robust.

她將近90歲了，但身體仍然十分強(qiáng)健。

來自《權(quán)威詞典》

4. That chair's not very robust; don't sit on it.

那把椅子不太結(jié)實(shí), 別坐它了.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. I want something sequacious now and robust.

我現(xiàn)在想要前后一貫和健全的東西.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》