Merriam-Webster defines "austerity" as "enforced or extreme economy."

VOA: special.2010.12.24

All right. Let's consider now the second extreme case, or extreme case b, b for our helium atom.

好的让我们现在来考虑,一下第二种极端案例，或者极端案例。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Or maybe you could be wanting to try some extreme sports like skydiving, jumping out of an airplane.

又或者你想尝试一些极限运动，比如跳伞，直接从飞机上跳下来。

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In other words, my experience I think predisposed me to being interested in the kind of phenomena that people in these extreme and unusual environments encounter. With Shackletons experience in mind, John Geiger started to investigate whether other people facing death or extreme fear had faced similar situations.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

Before long the speaker realizes that this fantasy is starting to sound a little extreme or maybe a little dangerous.

不久之后诗歌发言者意识到,这个幻景,开始听起来有点过头或危险了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Others die from being out in the cold or from heart attacks caused by extreme physical activity.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

We finally or fully understand what people are only in the most extreme situations.

我们终会或完全了解人性的时刻,仅有在最极端的情势下。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It doesnt matter whether they are at great elevation or at sea level. John Geiger suggests that the brains effort to create a Third Man is not an accident of human brain structure, or a sign of injury in extreme conditions.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

Part of being an absolute ruler is being able to levy taxes against those people who have the joy or the extreme misfortune of living in those domains, and more about that later.

绝对统治者的一个权利,就是能向那些领土内的富商巨贾,或是一贫如洗的穷人征收赋税,这个稍后再详说

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

"We discovered 150 or so genetic markers that can highly predict whether or not a person has the genetic propensity to live to extreme old age."

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

That it is intended as a kind of joke to, in many ways, discredit the idea of the just city or at least to indicate its extreme implausibility.

目的是要用作戏谑，在很多方面，使人怀疑正义之城的概念,或至少是要指明其极难令人置信。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The New South Wales Supreme Court heard that the group planned to use bombs or firearms to commit "extreme violence" to punish Australia for its involvement in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.17