hard是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 not easy to bend, cut, or break -- 坚硬的，坚固的

  • a hard surface 坚硬的表面

  • There was a heavy frost last night and the ground is still hard. 昨晚霜冻很严重，地面现在仍很坚硬。

  • Heating the clay makes it hard. 黏土加热会变硬。

• 1 difficult to understand, do, experience, or deal with -- 困难的，费力的

  • There were some really hard questions in the exam. 考试中有一些很难做的题目。

  • It's hard to say which of them is lying. 很难说他们当中哪个在说谎。

  • It's hard being a single mother. 做单身母亲很艰难。

  • Her handwriting is very hard to read. 她的字迹很难辨认。

  • He's a hard man to please. 他是个难以取悦的人。

  • The topics get harder later in the course. 在以后的课程中题目会更难。

  • I feel sorry for the kids, too - they've had a hard time. 我也觉得对不起孩子们——他们那一段过得很苦。

• 2 needing or using a lot of physical or mental effort -- 耗费体力（或脑力）的；辛苦的

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

  • It was hard work on the farm but satisfying. 农场的活儿很辛苦，但让人有满足感。

• 3 not pleasant or gentle; severe -- 严厉的，苛刻的

  • You have to be quite hard to succeed in the property business. 要想在房地产生意中获得成功，你必须相当强硬才行。

  • Ooh, you're a hard woman, Elaine! 噢，你真是个硬心肠的女人，伊莱恩！

  • Our boss has been giving us all a hard time at work (= making our time at work difficult). 我们老板一直都让我们工作的时候日子不好过。

  • Don't be too hard on him - he's new to the job. 别对他太苛刻——他刚开始做这项工作。

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

  • hard liquor 烈性酒

• 5 Hard water contains a high level of minerals that prevent soap from cleaning. -- （水）硬的，含矿物质较多的

• 6 able to be proved -- 可证实的，确凿的

  • hard facts/evidence 确凿的事实／证据

• 7 used to describe a time when there is bad weather -- （指某个时间）天气恶劣的

  • We had a very hard winter last year. 去年冬天天气非常恶劣。

• 8 with a lot of physical or mental effort -- 费劲地，努力地，艰难地

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

  • I'm not surprised he failed his exam - he didn't exactly try very hard! 他没通过考试我一点都不感到奇怪——他根本就没用功。

• 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. 大半个下午都在下暴雨。