Tough
[tʌf]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) resistant to cutting or chewing .
(adj.) physically toughened; 'the tough bottoms of his feet' .
(adj.) not given to gentleness or sentimentality; 'a tough character' .
弗朗西丝編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(superl.) Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain; as, the ligaments of animals are remarkably tough.
(superl.) Not easily broken; able to endure hardship; firm; strong; as, tough sinews.
(superl.) Not easily separated; viscous; clammy; tenacious; as, tough phlegm.
(superl.) Stiff; rigid; not flexible; stubborn; as, a tough bow.
(superl.) Severe; violent; as, a tough storm.
哈利整理
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Adhesive, tenacious, cohesive, not brittle, not easily broken.[2]. Coriaceous, leathery.[3]. Strong, firm, hardy.[4]. Refractory, stubborn, obdurate.[5]. [Colloquial.] Difficult, hard, hard to deal with.[6]. [Colloquial.] Severe (as a storm), violent.
錄入:奥利维尔
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Resistent, stubborn, lentous, fibrous, difficult, refractory, hard,unmanageable, tenacious, firm, strong
ANT:Yielding, tender, soft, brittle, fragile, frangible, friable
編輯:路易斯
解釋/意思:
adj. not easily broken: firm: stiff viscous sticky: stubborn hard to manage trying: violent: tenacious: able to endure hardship.—n. a rough a bully.—v.t. or v.i. Tough′en to make or become tough.—adj. Tough′ish rather tough.—adv. Tough′ly.—n. Tough′ness.
整理:诺拉
例句/造句/用法:
- Ignatius began his career as a very tough and gallant young Spaniard. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The mimeograph employs a pointed stylus, used as in writing with a lead-pencil, which is moved over a kind of tough prepared paper placed on a finely grooved steel plate. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- When they came to some heavily shaded spots, the fine trees were marked T to indicate that the work in getting through them would be tough. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- He fancied it tough, sent away his plate, and has been suffering ever since. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- When the mass cools it becomes a yellowish, transparent, glacial substance, tough and deliquescent. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Only the elderly sociologist, whose mental fibre was so tough as to be insentient, seemed to be thoroughly happy. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- We all know that leather is the skins of animals, dressed and prepared for our use by tanning, or some other process, which preserves them from rotting and renders them pliable and tough. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Trifling variations in the ingredients, in the proportion and in the heating, made it either pliable as kid, tougher than ox hide, as elastic as whalebone, or as rigid as flint. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Vulcanization is simply the heating of the rubber mixed with sulphur--this causes a chemical change in the substance; it becomes tougher, more elastic and less affected by heat and cold. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- So far as foundry iron is concerned, the experience at Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, brief as it has been, shows that a stronger and tougher metal is made. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- You will find the second tougher still. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- He accepted his punishment with the toughest stoicism. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Piacenza's the toughest house to sing in the north of Italy, the other tenor said. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- It was the toughest kind of restaurant ever seen. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
校對:佩里