| 释义 |
hard-boil, v.
[Back-formation f. next.]
trans. To boil (an egg) until hard-boiled. Also transf.
1895‘Mark Twain’ in Harper's Nov. 886 No more time to decide it than it takes to hard-boil an egg. a1930D. H. Lawrence Etruscan Places (1932) 16 He [sc. a shepherd] is the faun escaping again out of the city precincts... You cannot hard-boil him. 1963Listener 10 Jan. 103/3 Hard-boil the eggs. 1973Nature 23 Mar. 258/2 Considerably less than 12 h is required, either at 91° or 86° C, to hard-boil an egg. |