tough

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基本釋義

adj.
棘手的; 堅強的; 粗野的; 治安很差的; 艱難的; 強硬的; 堅固的; 嚼不動的; 倒霉的
n.
暴徒
v.
堅持
adv.
堅強地

詞性變化

實用例句

a tough childhood

苦難的童年

牛津詞典

It was a tough decision to make.

那是個很難作的決定。

牛津詞典

She's been having a tough time of it (= a lot of problems) lately.

她最近的日子一直很難熬。

牛津詞典

He faces the toughest test of his leadership so far.

他面臨迄今為止對自己的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)工作最嚴(yán)峻的考驗。

牛津詞典

It can be tough trying to juggle a career and a family.

要事業(yè)家庭兩不誤,有時會很艱難。

牛津詞典

Don't be too tough on him─he was only trying to help.

別對他要求過嚴(yán),他只是想幫忙。

牛津詞典

It's about time teachers started to get tough with bullies.

現(xiàn)在教師該對橫行霸道的學(xué)生開始采取嚴(yán)厲措施了。

牛津詞典

The school takes a tough line on (= punishes severely) cheating.

學(xué)校對作弊行為的懲罰很嚴(yán)厲。

牛津詞典

a tough breed of cattle

健壯型的牛

牛津詞典

He's not tough enough for a career in sales.

他干推銷這一行缺少足夠的韌勁。

牛津詞典

She's a tough cookie/customer (= sb who knows what they want and is not easily influenced by other people) .

她是個有主見的人。

牛津詞典

You think you're so tough, don't you?

你以為自己夠厲害的,是不是?

牛津詞典

He plays the tough guy in the movie.

他在電影中扮演硬漢。

牛津詞典

a tough pair of shoes

一雙結(jié)實的鞋子

牛津詞典

The reptile's skin is tough and scaly.

這種爬行動物的皮膚堅韌并帶有鱗片。

牛津詞典

He built up a reputation as a tough businessman...

他樹立了鐵面生意人的名聲。

She is tough and ambitious.

她堅韌頑強,滿懷抱負(fù)。

He had shot three people dead earning himself a reputation as a tough guy.

他因槍殺三人得到了暴徒的惡名。

She doesn't seem cut out for this tough neighbourhood...

她似乎不適合在這個治安惡劣的社區(qū)生活。

Arthur grew up in a tough city.

阿瑟在一個到處是暴力與犯罪的城市長大。

She had a pretty tough childhood…

她的童年非常不幸。

It's been a tough day…

這是難熬的一天。

It was a very tough decision but we feel we made the right one...

這是個困難的決定,但是我們認(rèn)為我們做出了正確的選擇。

Whoever wins the election is going to have a tough job getting the economy back on its feet…

不管是誰贏得選舉都將面對復(fù)蘇經(jīng)濟的棘手任務(wù)。

He is known for taking a tough line on security...

他因在安全問題上采取強硬路線而聞名。

He announced tough measures to limit the money supply.

他公布了限制貨幣供應(yīng)的嚴(yán)厲措施。

In industry, diamond can form a tough, non-corrosive coating for tools.

在工業(yè)上,金剛石可以用作工具表面堅固、耐腐蝕的覆蓋層。

…dark brown beans with a rather tough outer skin.

有著相當(dāng)堅韌外殼的深棕色豆類

The steak was tough and the peas were like bullets.

牛排老得嚼不動,豌豆像子彈一樣硬。

The White House is hanging tough for a good agreement to be reached.

白宮為達(dá)成一項有利協(xié)議寸步不讓。

真題例句

These findings are in agreement with what you would expect from the evolutionary theory: those who like to make friends and help others can gather enough resources to make it through tough times.

出自-2016年6月閱讀原文

When I told a group of school children who displayed helpless behavior that a lack of effort led to their mistakes in math, they learned to keep trying when the problems got tough.

出自-2016年12月閱讀原文

Times are so tough that even bosses are taking pay cuts.

出自-2013年6月閱讀原文

There is, in our view, no real dispute here, we are all seeking the same thing, which is schools that better serve our children and our nation by encouraging students to tackle tough subjects under the guidance of gifted teachers.

出自-2012年6月閱讀原文

In playgrounds, children create a hierarchy (等級) based on physical abilities, with the tough ones taking the lead.

出自-2010年12月閱讀原文

tend to be physically tougher in adulthood

出自-2010年12月閱讀原文

After tough workout or a day full of physical activity, it's common to find your muscles aching, but where do these pains come from?

2019年12月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C

Banks and car manufacturers are glad for the extra business in tough economic times.

2015年12月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section A

Look, it's a tough decision, but you're running out of time, aren't you?

2019年12月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section B

Sarina Harper, a 19-year-old student at virginia Tech, was faced with a tough dilemma when she first started college in 2015—pay rent or pay to turn in her chemistry homework.

2018年6月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

A study by Mannaz, a leadership development company, suggests that, while the bully-boy chief executive of old may not have been eradicated completely, there is a definite shift in emphasis towards less tough styles of management – at least in America and Europe.

出自-2011年6月閱讀原文

It is eradicating the tough aspects of management

出自-2011年6月閱讀原文

He has a tough problem to solve.

出自-2013年12月聽力原文

The actor type works better in tough negotiations.

出自-2012年12月聽力原文

Psychologists are finding that hope plays a surprisingly vital role in giving people a measurable advantage in rounds as diverse as academic achievement, bearing up in tough jobs, and coping with tragic illness.

出自-2010年12月聽力原文

It has encountered increasingly tougher challenges.

出自-2010年6月聽力原文

Because children's brain and behavioral disorders, like hyperactivity and lower grades, can also be linked to social and genetic factors, it's tough to pin them on exposure to specific chemicals with solid 33 statistical evidence, which is what the EPA re

2015年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section A

But now, that insurance has run out for him, and he has to make tough choices.

2016年6月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C

Extreme conditions produce extremely tough plants.

2018年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

give yourself the resources to be tough by creating internal and external recovery periods.

2018年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

It's tough to quantify how good a person is at remembering.

2018年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

The big difference between "drought-tolerant" plants and these tough plants: metabolism.

2018年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

We believe that the longer we tough it out, the tougher we are, and therefore the more successful we will be.

2018年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

We often take a militaristic, "tough" approach to resilience and determination like a Marine pulling himself through the mud, a boxer going one more round, or a football player picking himself up off the ground for one more play.

2018年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

A tough man can tolerate suffering.

2019年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 選項

Applying my own rule, I determined to write them in alphabetical, never letting myself leave out a tough idea.

2016年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

But life must be pretty tough for his family now.

2019年高考英語全國卷I 聽力 原文

Researchers should improve their standards, he wrote in2012, but journals should also take a tougher line, “engaging reviewers who are statistically literate and editors who can verify the process”.

出自-2015年考研閱讀原文

firms who want to keep their outside directors through tough times may have to create incentives.

2011年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Sometimes it is easy to feel bad because you are going through tough times.

2015年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

That suggests it is in the broader corporate interest to recruit top candidates for increasingly tough jobs.

2020年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

The food industry will be alarmed that such senior doctors back such radical moves, especially the call to use some of the tough tactics that have been deployed against smoking over the last decade.

2011年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Think about how tough it is to get together 15 people, much less 50, who all get along perfectly.

2020年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

英英釋義

Noun
  • 1. someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing

  • 2. an aggressive and violent young criminal

  • 3. a cruel and brutal fellow

Adjective
  • 1. not given to gentleness or sentimentality;

    "a tough character"

  • 2. very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution;

    "a rugged competitive examination"

    "the rugged conditions of frontier life"

    "the competition was tough"

    "it's a tough life"

    "it was a tough job"

  • 3. physically toughened;

    "the tough bottoms of his feet"

  • 4. substantially made or constructed;

    "sturdy steel shelves"

    "sturdy canvas"

    "a tough all-weather fabric"

    "some plastics are as tough as metal"

  • 5. violent and lawless;

    "the more ruffianly element"

    "tough street gangs"

  • 6. feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad');

    "my throat feels bad"

    "she felt bad all over"

    "he was feeling tough after a restless night"

  • 7. tough to cut or chew

  • 8. unfortunate or hard to bear;

    "had hard luck"

    "a tough break"

同義詞辨析

healthy, sound, robust, well, strong, vigorous, sturdy, tough, wholesome, fit

這些形容詞均含"健康的,強健的"之意。

  • healthy: 指身體無病,也可指身心健全、正常的。
  • sound: 側(cè)重身體各部分或器官沒有病,無任何缺陷,即健康。
  • robust: 強調(diào)身體強健。
  • well: 僅指沒有疾病,但不一定很健康。
  • strong: 既指體格健壯,又指體力或精神上的力量。
  • vigorous: 指人強健有力,精力充沛。
  • sturdy: 側(cè)重于結(jié)實的體格。
  • tough: 著重指人的體格健壯。
  • wholesome: 多指能給人留下身體健康、思想健全或品德良好等印象。
  • fit: 既可指健壯又可指健全無病。

同義詞

adj.堅強的;牢固的

sturdystrongfirmdurablehardy

adj.堅韌的;強壯的

durablestrongsturdyhardfirm

反義詞

adj.頑固的;堅硬的;強壯的;粗魯?shù)?/span>

tendereasygentlesoftweakfragile

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