| 单词 | iron-jawed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasiron-jawed iron-jawed adj. ΚΠ 1694 R. Calef Let. 11 Jan. in More Wonders Invisible World (1700) ii. 15 The Attendants said that she was sometimes in Fit that none could open her Joynts, and that there came an Old Iron-jaw'd Woman and try'd, but could not do it. 1720 S. Fancourt Ess. Certainty & Infallibility 17 Such Reasoning..may be found too nervous and conclusive for the most iron-jaw'd Mathematician to tear in pieces. 1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi iii. 44 I'm the old original iron-jawed, brass-mounted..corpse-maker from the wilds of Arkansaw! 1926 E. Hemingway Torrents of Spring i. 6 A short, iron-jawed man. 1995 J. Shreeve Neandertal Enigma (1996) xii. 323 The demi-ape has evolved abruptly into Modern Man: handsomely upright, resolute, full of clear-eyed, iron-jawed purpose. < as lemmas |
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