The outbreak of high prices lays another severe test at their feet.

高油价的爆发给他们带来了另一个严峻的考验。

Would you think me impertinent if I were to put your theories to a more severe test?

我现在给你一个比较复杂的考验，你不觉得我鲁莽吧？

The past year has subjected emerging-market anchors to one severe test after another.

过去的一年，新兴市场主播们经受了一次又一次严峻的考验。

The negotiations will be a severe test of his abilities.

【severe，severity】谈判将是对他的能力的严峻考验。

The Roosevelt theory that the President could do anything for public welfare not forbidden by the Constitution and the laws was put to a severe test in 1902.

——罗斯福关于总统可以为公共福利做任何宪法和法律不禁止的事情的理论在1902年受到了严峻的考验。