| 单词 | hard |
| 释义 | Word Frequency hard(hɑːd) adjective 1. firm or rigid; not easily dented, crushed, or pierced 2. toughened by or as if by physical labour; not soft or smooth hard hands 3. difficult to do or accomplish; arduous a hard task 4. difficult to understand or perceive a hard question 5. showing or requiring considerable physical or mental energy, effort, or application hard work a hard drinker 6. stern, cold, or intractable a hard judge 7. exacting; demanding a hard master 8. harsh; cruel a hard fate 9. inflicting pain, sorrow, distress, or hardship hard times 10. tough or adamant a hard man 11. forceful or violent a hard knock 12. cool or uncompromising we took a long hard look at our profit factor 13. indisputable; real hard facts 14. chemistry (of water) impairing the formation of a lather by soap hardness (sense 3)15. practical, shrewd, or calculating he is a hard man in business 16. too harsh to be pleasant hard light 17. a. (of cash, money, etc) in coin and paper rather than cheques b. (of currency) in strong demand, esp as a result of a good balance of payments situation c. (of credit) difficult to obtain; tight 18. (of alcoholic drink) being a spirit rather than a wine, beer, etc the hard stuff 19. (of a drug such as heroin, morphine, or cocaine) highly addictive Compare soft (sense 20) 20. physics (of radiation, such as gamma rays and X-rays) having high energy and the ability to penetrate solids 21. physics (of a vacuum) almost complete 22. mainly US (of goods) durable 23. short for hard-core hard core (sense 3), hard core (sense 4)24. (of news coverage) concentrating on serious stories 25. phonetics a. an older word for fortis b. (not in modern technical usage) denoting the consonants c and g in English when they are pronounced as velar stops (k, g) c. (of consonants in the Slavonic languages) not palatalized 26. a. being heavily fortified and protected b. (of nuclear missiles) located underground in massively reinforced silos 27. politically extreme the hard left 28. British and New Zealand informal incorrigible or disreputable (esp in the phrase a hard case) 29. (of bread, etc) stale and old 30. a hard nut to crack 31. hard by 32. hard doer 33. hard done by 34. hard up 35. put the hard word on adverb 36. with great energy, force, or vigour the team always played hard 37. as far as possible; all the way hard left 38. with application; earnestly or intently she thought hard about the formula 39. with great intensity, force, or violence his son's death hit him hard 40. (foll by on, upon, by, or after) close; near hard on his heels 41. (foll by at) assiduously; devotedly 42. a. with effort or difficulty their victory was hard won b. (in combination) hard-earned 43. slowly and reluctantly prejudice dies hard 44. go hard with 45. hard at it 46. hard put noun 47. any colorant that produces a harsh coarse appearance 48. British a roadway across a foreshore 49. slang hard labour 50. vulgar, slang an erection of the penis (esp in the phrase get or have a hard on) Word origin Old English heard; related to Old Norse harthr, Old Frisian herd, Old High German herti, Gothic hardus hard, Greek kratus strong |
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