Tough

(adj.) resistant to cutting or chewing .

(adj.) physically toughened; 'the tough bottoms of his feet' .

(adj.) not given to gentleness or sentimentality; 'a tough character' .

弗朗西丝编辑

• Ignatius began his career as a very tough and gallant young Spaniard. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The mimeograph employs a pointed stylus, used as in writing with a lead-pencil, which is moved over a kind of tough prepared paper placed on a finely grooved steel plate. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• When they came to some heavily shaded spots, the fine trees were marked T to indicate that the work in getting through them would be tough. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He fancied it tough, sent away his plate, and has been suffering ever since. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• When the mass cools it becomes a yellowish, transparent, glacial substance, tough and deliquescent. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Only the elderly sociologist, whose mental fibre was so tough as to be insentient, seemed to be thoroughly happy. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• We all know that leather is the skins of animals, dressed and prepared for our use by tanning, or some other process, which preserves them from rotting and renders them pliable and tough. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Trifling variations in the ingredients, in the proportion and in the heating, made it either pliable as kid, tougher than ox hide, as elastic as whalebone, or as rigid as flint. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Vulcanization is simply the heating of the rubber mixed with sulphur--this causes a chemical change in the substance; it becomes tougher, more elastic and less affected by heat and cold. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• So far as foundry iron is concerned, the experience at Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, brief as it has been, shows that a stronger and tougher metal is made. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• You will find the second tougher still. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• He accepted his punishment with the toughest stoicism. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Piacenza's the toughest house to sing in the north of Italy, the other tenor said. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• It was the toughest kind of restaurant ever seen. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

校对:佩里