hard是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 not easy to bend, cut, or break -- 堅硬的，堅固的

  • a hard surface 堅硬的表面

  • There was a heavy frost last night and the ground is still hard. 昨晚霜凍很嚴重，地面現在仍然很堅硬。

  • Heating the clay makes it hard. 黏土加熱會變硬。

• 1 difficult to understand, do, experience, or deal with -- 困難的，費力的

  • There were some really hard questions in the exam. 考試中有一些很難做的題目。

  • It's hard to say which of them is lying. 很難說他們當中哪個在說謊。

  • It's hard being a single mother. 當個單親媽媽很困難。

  • Her handwriting is very hard to read. 她的字跡很難辨認。

  • He's a hard man to please. 他是個難以取悅的人。

  • The topics get harder later in the course. 在日後的課程中題目會更難。

  • I feel sorry for the kids, too - they've had a hard time. 我也覺得對不起孩子們——他們過得很辛苦。

• 2 needing or using a lot of physical or mental effort -- 耗費體力（或腦力）的；辛苦的

  • Go on - give it a good hard push! 繼續——用力推一把！

  • It was hard work on the farm but satisfying. 農場的工作很辛苦，但讓人有滿足感。

• 3 not pleasant or gentle; severe -- 嚴厲的，苛刻的

  • You have to be quite hard to succeed in the property business. 要想在房地産業界中獲得成功，你必須相當強硬才行。

  • Ooh, you're a hard woman, Elaine! 噢，你真是個硬心腸的女人，伊萊恩！

  • Our boss has been giving us all a hard time at work (= making our time at work difficult). 我們老闆一直都讓我們在工作的時候很不好過。

  • Don't be too hard on him - he's new to the job. 別對他太苛刻——他剛開始做這項工作。

• 4 A hard drink contains a high level of alcohol. -- （酒）烈性的，酒精含量高的

  • hard liquor 烈酒

• 5 Hard water contains a high level of minerals that prevent soap from cleaning. -- （水）硬的，含礦物質較多的

• 6 able to be proved -- 可證實的，確鑿的

  • hard facts/evidence 確鑿的事實／證據

• 7 used to describe a time when there is bad weather -- （指某個時間）天氣惡劣的

  • We had a very hard winter last year. 去年冬天天氣非常惡劣。

• 8 with a lot of physical or mental effort -- 費勁地，努力地，艱難地

  • Work hard and play hard, that's my motto. 努力工作痛快玩，這是我的座右銘。

  • I'm not surprised he failed his exam - he didn't exactly try very hard! 他沒通過考試我一點都不感到奇怪——他根本就沒用功。

• 9 If it rains or snows hard, it rains or snows a lot. -- （雨或雪下得）猛烈地，大量地

  • It had been raining hard most of the afternoon. 大半個下午都在下暴雨。