Hard

(adj.) dried out; 'hard dry rolls left over from the day before' .

(adj.) unfortunate or hard to bear; 'had hard luck'; 'a tough break' .

(adj.) resisting weight or pressure .

(adj.) dispassionate; 'took a hard look'; 'a hard bargainer'; .

(adj.) (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum; 'Russian distinguished between hard consonants and palatalized or soft consonants' .

(adj.) (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source .

(adj.) being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content; 'hard liquor' .

(adj.) very strong or vigorous; 'strong winds'; 'a hard left to the chin'; 'a knockout punch'; 'a severe blow' .

(adv.) with effort or force or vigor; 'the team played hard'; 'worked hard all day'; 'pressed hard on the lever'; 'hit the ball hard'; 'slammed the door hard'.

(adv.) to the full extent possible; all the way; 'hard alee'; 'the ship went hard astern'; 'swung the wheel hard left'.

(adv.) slowly and with difficulty; 'prejudices die hard'.

(adv.) causing great damage or hardship; 'industries hit hard by the depression'; 'she was severely affected by the bank's failure'.

(adv.) with firmness; 'held hard to the railing'.

(adv.) earnestly or intently; 'thought hard about it'; 'stared hard at the accused'.

(adv.) with pain or distress or bitterness; 'he took the rejection very hard'.

(adv.) very near or close in space or time; 'it stands hard by the railroad tracks'; 'they were hard on his heels'; 'a strike followed hard upon the plant's opening'.

丹尼斯编辑

• Yet it was a hard time for sensitive, high-spirited Jo, who meant so well and had apparently done so ill. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• For instance, if he took his supper after a hard day, to the Dead March in Saul, his food might be likely to sit heavy on him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• They have a kind of hard flints, which, by grinding against other stones, they form into instruments, that serve instead of wedges, axes, and hammers. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• A hard-working man, and not overstrong, he would return to his home from the machine-shop where he was employed, and throw himself on the bed night after night to rest. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The manifest advantage of an even track for the wheels long ago suggested the idea of laying down wood and other hard, smooth surfaces for carriages to run upon. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• A cocoanut shell always has a soft spot at one end because this is the provision nature has made to allow the embryo of the future tree to push its way out of the hard shell. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Even if water is only moderately hard, much soap is lost. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• You work hard at your learning, I know. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The gal's manners is dreadful vulgar; and the boy breathes so very hard while he's eating, that we found it impossible to sit at table with him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Have you found your first day's work harder than you expected? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• That she had chosen to move away from him in this moment of her trouble made everything harder to say, but he must absolutely go on. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He knows that it's hard to keep the mud off the crossing in dirty weather, and harder still to live by doing it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Gold is seldom used for any purpose in a state of perfect purity on account of its softness, but is combined with some other metal to render it harder. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Some of the new metals discovered in the last century have in this century been combined with iron to make harder steel. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Except that it is rather harder now, Venn continued. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• But Scipio Africanus lacked that harder alloy which makes men great democratic leaders. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The strength of the blow depends on the hardness of the metal, and when one part is harder than another the workman alters his blows accordingly. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Yet the very vogue of the electric arc light made harder the arrival of the incandescent. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It will be harder to read now than that palimpsest. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I am sure you had no share in it, or in the cruel suspicions of Mr. Osborne, which are the hardest of all our griefs to bear. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I doubt whether Chettam would not have been more severe, and yet he comes down on me as if I were the hardest man in the county. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I can laugh at it as bitterly as the hardest man who tosses it from him in contempt. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• McClernand was next to Sherman, and the hardest fighting was in front of these two divisions. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I would have been his servant or his slave, and lived on one of his smiles for a week, as a reward for the hardest labour. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The diamond is the hardest known substance in the world, cutting and grinding all other known hard things, but itself only cut and ground by its mates. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He tries to do it; he says he'll bring me down and humble me, and he puts me to just the hardest, meanest and dirtiest work, on purpose! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• It always seemed to him that words were the hardest part of business. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• But one of the hardest domestic tasks is that of keeping the house clean. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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