及物动词

名词

1. 训练;纪律;风纪
Discipline is the practice of making people obey rules or standards of behaviour, and punishing them when they do not.

2. 自制力;遵守纪律
Discipline is the quality of being able to behave and work in a controlled way which involves obeying particular rules or standards.

3. 训练;磨炼
If you refer to an activity or situation as a discipline, you mean that, in order to be successful in it, you need to behave in a strictly controlled way and obey particular rules or standards.

4. 惩罚;处罚;处分
If someone is disciplined for something that they have done wrong, they are punished for it.

5. 训练;训导;管教
If you discipline yourself to do something, you train yourself to behave and work in a strictly controlled and regular way.

6. (尤指大学里的)学科，科目
A discipline is a particular area of study, especially a subject of study in a college or university.

7. see also: self-discipline

1. training to improve strength or self-control

2. the act of punishing

e.g. the offenders deserved the harsh discipline they received

Synonym: correction

3. the trait of being well behaved

e.g. he insisted on discipline among the troops

4. a system of rules of conduct or method of practice

e.g. he quickly learned the discipline of prison routine
for such a plan to work requires discipline

5. a branch of knowledge

e.g. in what discipline is his doctorate?
teachers should be well trained in their subject
anthropology is the study of human beings

Synonym: subjectsubject areasubject fieldfieldfield of studystudybailiwick