| 单词 | hard-bitten |
| 释义 | hard-bitten 1. < so hard-bitten an animal that all the torture you can use will not make him leave his hold — Martin Hunter > 2. a. < hard-bitten tribesmen, their … faces flecked with the blood of the fighting — T.E.Lawrence > < the rangers … were a hard-bitten lot, and they went after outlaws in a businesslike way — W.M.Raine > b. (1) < this genial but hard-bitten career diplomat — Newsweek > (2) < hard-bitten amateur high-fidelity operators — R.S.Lanier > < hard-bitten bachelors complained that they were too shy to approach women — Atlantic > 3. a. (1) < a hard-biten, granite-faced, Scotch-Irish Presbyterian — Newsweek > < his hard-bitten New England independence — Edwin Clark > < one of those hard-bitten ruggedly individualistic men — Pamela Taylor > (2) < the life of the farmer was all too often a lonely hard-bitten existence — American Guide Series: Ind. > b. < patronized by roistering, hard-bitten seafarers — American Guide Series: Florida > c. < the typical story of the hard-bitten man who clawed his way to the top — V.P.Hass > d. < this hard-bitten gentleman has an aesthetic and romantic side — Stanley Walker > < a somewhat more hard-bitten scholarly segment … squared off for wordy battles with the faithful — M.W.Fishwick > < realistic, hard-bitten, and unrhetorical — Saturday Review > |
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