Harden
['hɑːd(ə)n] or ['hɑrdn]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) become hard or harder; 'The wax hardened'.
(verb.) make hard or harder; 'The cold hardened the butter'.
贝丝編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
(v. t.) To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable.
(v. i.) To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying.
(v. i.) To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense.
德斯蒙德錄入
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Indurate, make hard, make callous.[2]. Habituate, inure, season, accustom, form, train, discipline.[3]. Strengthen, fortify, steel, nerve, brace.[4]. Sear, make callous, render insensible.[5]. Make obdurate, confirm in wickedness.
v. n. Grow or become hard.
校對:贾斯廷
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Inure, train, habituate, confirm, indurate, consolidate, compact
ANT:Disinure, relax, enervate, debilitate, dishabituate, soften, melt, mollify,colliquate, vaporize
康斯坦丁校對
例句/造句/用法:
- The pouring of the entire house is accomplished in about six hours, and then the molds are left undisturbed for six days, in order that the concrete may set and harden. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The buff finish looks all right, but it does not harden the silver sufficiently and in consequence the latter does not wear well. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Barbara went out: she returned soon-- Madam, Mrs. Harden says she has sent up the usual quantity. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- As his lineaments soften with life, their faces and their hearts harden to him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Mouth washes are a valuable addition to the toilet as they assist to harden and heal the gums, cleanse the mouth and purify the breath. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- His niece was deep in thought likewise, trying to harden and prepare herself against farther questioning. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- It was still India rubber, but its surface would not adhere, nor would it harden at any degree of cold, nor soften at any degree of heat. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- They will work, as I have seen, with wax hardened with vermilion or softened with lard. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Shield, face-hardened nickel steel, 10 inches thick, 66 inches high. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I wish I could be hardened to 'em, but I an't. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- It was harsh, it was shocking, even as applied to the most hardened sinner, in such a state of mental and bodily suffering. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- It would be quite possible for a narrowly conceived scheme of vocational education to perpetuate this division in a hardened form. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- I never see such a hardened little wretch! 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- It is a clay fire-hardened furnace for smelting iron. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Now this won't do, said John, hardening his heart against the engaging little sinner. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- I have, returned Elinor, colouring likewise, and hardening her heart anew against any compassion for him, I have heard it all. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- After the engraver has worked out the design in intaglio the die is put through the operation of hardening, after which, being cleaned and polished, it is called a matrix. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Of course, the same hardening of the organic conditions affects the physiological structures which are involved in thinking. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Now, they say, said Haley, assuming a candid and confidential air, that this kind o' trade is hardening to the feelings; but I never found it so. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The plate is then taken to be Harveyized by cementation, hardening, and tempering, as seen in Figs. 260, 261, and 262. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Once our profession becomes all absorbing it hardens into pedantry. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- After the mixture has been applied, it hardens and forms a tough skin fairly impervious to weathering. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- As soon as it cools it hardens into an impervious glossy layer that I should think eminently adapted to this purpose. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Whitewash on the forehead hardens the brain into a state of obstinacy perhaps. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
編輯:波西亚