| 单词 | too hard for |
| 释义 | > as lemmastoo hard for 14. Of a person: difficult to deal with, control, or contend against. In early use chiefly in †too hard for: too much for (a person), more than (a person) can manage (obsolete). Cf. hard case n. 3, hard ticket n. at Compounds 4, etc.Sometimes merging with or influenced by sense A. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [adjective] > difficult or intractable (of things) wickc1330 riotous1340 wickeda1352 untreatablec1374 frowarda1400 inobedient1495 stubborn?1518 unwieldya1538 unruly1548 wieldlessa1560 hard1560 untoward1566 tickle1570 churlish1577 unwieldsome1579 rebellious1587 disobedient1588 unframeable1593 unwilling1593 untractable1601 unmanageable1606 intractable1607 surly1609 unwedgeablea1616 dogged1627 uncontrollable1648 obdurate1651 morose1652 uncompliant1659 sullen1678 unpliant1716 ungovernable1773 sulky1867 intractile1880 unwieldly1881 bunglesome1915 1560 Bible (Geneva) 2 Sam. iii. 39 And I am this day weake and newely anointed King: and these men the sonnes of Zeruiáh be to hard for me: ye Lord reward the doer of euil according to his wickednes. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost ii. i. 258 Boy. What then, do you see? Lad. I, our way to be gone. Boy. You are too hard for mee. View more context for this quotation 1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence ii. 32 The hollander was too hard for the frenchman, & threw him down. 1751 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 21 Jan. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1664 A man who is master of his matter will, with inferior parts, be too hard..for a man of better parts, who knows his subject but superficially. 1757 G. Shelvocke, Jr. Shelvocke's Voy. round World (ed. 2) xi. 330 If we found the enemy too hard for us. a1848 G. F. Ruxton Life in Far West (1849) iv. 107 La Bonté had lost all traces of civilised humanity, and might justly claim to be considered as ‘hard a case’ as any of the mountaineers then present. 1870 A. W. M'Clure Lives Chief Fathers New Eng. I. ix. 256 It was about to be ascertained that solid ‘round-heads’ were much too hard for empty ‘rattle-heads’. 1920 L. J. Miln Feast of Lanterns xxii. 158 ‘Be good to her.’ The last words were a plea, and a little anxious. Mary Worthing knew how hard girls could be. 1981 L. R. Banks Writing on Wall iv. 32 She could even keep the hard boys in order. 2013 Chronicle (Toowoomba, Queensland) (Nexis) 11 Sept. 21 It's pretty tiring if you play a hard team the day before and then play another hard team on the Sunday. too hard for b. too much (as predicate): (a) more than can be endured, intolerable: also too much of a good thing; (b) originally U.S., excellent, first-rate; too much for: more than a match for; such as to overcome or subdue: so too many for (see many adj. 3d), too hard for, etc. Chiefly colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > quality of being unendurable or intolerable > unendurable or intolerable [phrase] too much1533 too much of a good thing1809 a bit thick1884 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [phrase] > such as to overcome or overwhelm too hard for1781 too much for1794 too many for1861 the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adjective] > very excellent or first-rate gildenc1225 prime1402 rare1483 grand1542 holy1599 pre-excelling1600 paregal1602 classic1604 of (the) first rate1650 solary1651 first rate1674 superb1720 tip-top1722 tip-top-gallant1730 swell1819 topping1822 of the first (also finest, best, etc.) water1826 No. 11829 brag1836 A11837 A No. 11838 number one1839 awful1843 bully1851 first class1852 class1867 champion1880 too1881 tipping1887 alpha plus1898 bonzer1898 grade A1911 gold star1917 world-ranking1921 five-star1936 too much1937 first line1938 vintage1939 supercolossal1947 top1953 alpha1958 fantabulous1959 beauty1963 supercool1965 world-class1967 primo1973 1533 J. Heywood Mery Play Iohan Iohan sig. B.iv Shall we al way syt here styll we two. Yt were to mych. 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables xxxv. 35 They come to Vie Power and Expence with Those that are too High and too many for them. 1708 Deplorable State of New-Eng. ii. 16 Your Governour..has been too many for you. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 378 We were too many for them, for we run out our Guns..and..they retir'd. 1781 R. B. Sheridan Trip to Scarborough v. ii Don't be frightened, we shall be too hard for the rogue. 1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen 13 Should your horse prove, what is properly termed too many for you, and make off. 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho I. ix. 251 The sight of this poor old woman would have been too much for Emily. 1796 F. Burney Camilla I. ii. v. 233 O too much! too much! there is no standing it! 1809 S. Smith Wks. (1867) I. 175 This (to use a very colloquial phrase) is surely too much of a good thing. 1832 H. Martineau Life in Wilds v The light had been too much for him. 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations III. ix. 148 Mr. Jaggers was altogether too many for the Jury, and they gave in. 1863 J. C. Jeaffreson Sir Everard's Daughter 113 You can't rob me—I am too many for you..! You're a clever one—but you're no match for me. 1872 C. Hardwick Trad., Superstitions, & Folk-lore 189 On one occasion, however, the fiends were nearly ‘too many’ for the eternal toiler. 1937 Metronome Mar. 55/1 Man, if you didn't you really missed something. That man's too much! What great bass drum work he shows. 1958 G. Lea Somewhere there's Music xviii. 155 I want to make it to the City... Man, like the City is too much—and that's where I want to be. 1966 Melody Maker 15 Oct. 19 I just can't wait for his Spring return with Earl Hines, Budd Johnson and the rest. This could be too much. 1967 J. Morgan Involved 51 You were too much tonight..the way you leaned on Tuttles, that was really something. 1968 Scottish Daily Mail 3 Jan. 6 They got ‘Absolutely divine’; we get ‘Too much’... One day ‘Too much’ will sound as old fashioned as ‘ripping’. < as lemmas |
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