hard
美 [hɑrd]
英 [hɑː(r)d] 
- adv.努力地;艰难地;费力地;猛烈地
- adj.坚固的;坚硬的;结实的;难做的
- n.〈英〉硬海滩;〈英俚〉(囚犯的)强迫苦役
- 网络困难;困难的
词形变化
比较级:harder 最高级:hardest 反义词
英汉双解
坚固;坚硬solid/stiff
1. | 坚固的;坚硬的;结实的solid, firm or stiff and difficult to bend or break |
| Wait for the concrete to go hard. 等待混凝土凝结。 |
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| Diamonds are the hardest known mineral. 钻石是已知的最坚硬的矿石。 |
不易difficult
2. | 难做的;难懂的;难以回答的difficult to do, understand or answer |
| a hard choice/question 为难的选择;难以回答的问题 |
| It is hard to believe that she's only nine. 很难相信她只有九岁。 |
| It's hard to see how they can lose. 很难理解他们怎么会输。 |
| ‘When will the job be finished?’ ‘It's hard to say .’(= it is difficult to be certain) “这项工作什么时候能完成?”“难说。” |
| I find his attitude very hard to take(= difficult to accept) . 他的态度让我难以接受。 |
| We're finding reliable staff hard to come by(= difficult to get) . 我们觉得难以找到可靠的职员。 |
| It's hard for old people to change their ways. 老年人难以改变他们的习惯。 |
| It must be hard for her, bringing up four children on her own. 她一个人抚养四个孩子一定很艰难。 |
3. | 困苦的;艰苦的;艰难的full of difficulty and problems, especially because of a lack of money |
| Times were hard at the end of the war. 战争后期生活很艰苦。 |
| She's had a hard life. 她一生艰苦。 |
费力;用力needing/using effort
4. | 耗费体力(或脑力)的;辛苦的needing or using a lot of physical strength or mental effort |
| It's hard work shovelling snow. 铲雪是个苦活儿。 |
| I've had a long hard day. 我度过了漫长辛苦的一天。 |
5. | 努力的;勤劳的putting a lot of effort or energy into an activity |
| She's a very hard worker. 她工作很卖力。 |
| He's hard at work on a new novel. 他正努力忙着写一本新小说。 |
| When I left they were all still hard at it(= working hard) . 我离开的时候他们都还在努力工作。 |
6. | 用力的;猛烈的done with a lot of strength or force |
| He gave the door a good hard kick. 他狠狠踢了一下门。 |
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缺乏同情心without sympathy
7. | 冷酷无情的;硬心肠的;苛刻的showing no sympathy or affection |
| My father was a hard man. 我父亲是个不讲情面的人。 |
| She gave me a hard stare. 她狠狠地看了我一眼。 |
| He said some very hard things to me. 他对我说了些很不近人情的话。 |
不畏惧not afraid
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准备战斗的;不软弱退缩的ready to fight and showing no signs of fear or weakness |
| Come and get me if you think you're hard enough. 你要是觉得自己有种,就冲着我来吧。 |
| You think you're really hard, don't you? 你是不是以为自己真的很勇猛? |
事实;证据facts/evidence
9. | [obn] 确凿的;可证实的;可靠的definitely true and based on information that can be proved |
| Is there any hard evidence either way? 不管正反,有什么确凿证据吗? |
| The newspaper story is based on hard facts . 报纸的这篇报道有可靠的事实根据。 |
天气weather
10. | 寒冷的;凛冽的very cold and severe |
| It had been a hard winter . 那年的冬天特别冷。 |
| There was a hard frost that night. 那天晚上寒冷多霜。 |
饮料drink
11. | [obn] 酒精浓度高的;烈性的strongly alcoholic |
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| a drop of the hard stuff(= a strong alcoholic drink) 少许烈酒 |
水water
12. | 硬的(含钙及镁等可溶性盐较多)containing calcium and other mineral salts that make mixing with soap difficult |
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| Our water is very hard. 我们的水很硬。 |
辅音consonants
13. | 硬音的(如字母 c 或 g 在 cat 或 go 等词中的发音)used to describe a letter <ei>c</ei> or <ei>g</ei> when pronounced as in ‘cat’ or ‘go’, rather than as in ‘city’ or ‘giant’ |
努力with effort
1. | 努力地;费力地;艰难地with great effort; with difficulty |
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| You must try harder . 你得更加努力。 |
| She tried her hardest not to show how disappointed she was. 她竭力不流露出自己有多失望。 |
| Don't hit it so hard! 别这么用力打! |
| He was still breathing hard after his run. 他跑完步,现在还气喘吁吁的。 |
| Our victory was hard won(= won with great difficulty) . 我们的胜利来之不易。 |
猛力with force
| Small businesses have been hit hard / hard hit by the recession. 小企业受到了经济衰退的沉重打击。 |
仔细carefully
3. | 彻底认真地very carefully and thoroughly |
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| We thought long and hard before deciding to move house. 我们经过长久慎重的考虑之后才决定搬家。 |
大量a lot
4. | 沉重地;大量地;长时间地heavily; a lot or for a long time |
| It was raining hard when we set off. 我们出发时正下着大雨。 |
左;右left/right
5. | 向左(或右)急转弯at a sharp angle to the left/right |
| Turn hard right at the next junction. 在下个路口处向右急转弯。 |
习惯用语
be hard on sb/sth
严厉对待,严格批评(某人或某事)to treat or criticize sb in a very severe or strict way
| Don't be too hard on him─he's very young. 别对他太苛刻了,他还很小呢。 |
使…为难;对…不公平to be difficult for or unfair to sb/sth
| It's hard on people who don't have a car. 对于没有车的人来说,这不公平。 |
可能损伤,可能损坏(某物)to be likely to hurt or damage sth
| Looking at a computer screen all day can be very hard on the eyes. 成天盯着计算机屏幕可能会对眼睛造成严重损害。 |
drive/strike a hard bargain
狠狠地杀价to argue in an aggressive way and force sb to agree on the best possible price or arrangement
give sb a hard time
给某人找茬儿;使某人不好过to deliberately make a situation difficult and unpleasant for sb
| They really gave me a hard time at the interview. 面试时他们确实是在难为我。 |
hard and fast
板上钉钉;不容更改that cannot be changed in any circumstances
| There are no hard and fast rules about this. 这事没有什么硬性的规定。 |
(as) hard as nails
冷酷无情;铁石心肠;毫无惧色showing no sympathy, kindness or fear
hard cheese
(常作反话)太不幸了,真够倒霉used as a way of saying that you are sorry about sth, usually ironically(= you really mean the opposite)
hard going
难懂;费力difficult to understand or needing a lot of effort
| I'm finding his latest novel very hard going. 我觉得他最近的这部小说很晦涩。 |
hard luck/lines
(表示惋惜)真遗憾,太不幸了used to tell sb that you feel sorry for them
| ‘Failed again, I'm afraid.’ ‘Oh, hard luck.’ “恐怕我又失败了。”“哦,太不幸了。” |
the hard way
通过痛苦的经历;通过出错by having an unpleasant experience or by making mistakes
| She won't listen to my advice so she'll just have to learn the hard way . 她不肯听我的忠告,所以只好吃了苦头才知道厉害。 |
make hard work of sth
在某事上耗费过多时间(或精力);费冤枉力to use more time or energy on a task than is necessary
no hard feelings
(向争论或打败的对方表示继续友好)别往心里去,别记恨used to tell sb you have been arguing with or have beaten in a contest that you would still like to be friendly with them
| It looks like I'm the winner again. No hard feelings, Dave, eh? 看来我又赢了。你不会不高兴吧,戴夫? |
play hard to get
故作姿态;故意摆谱;佯装拿架子to make yourself seem more attractive or interesting by not immediately accepting an invitation to do sth
too much like hard work
太费力needing too much effort
| I can't be bothered making a hot meal─it's too much like hard work. 我懒得做热饭热菜,太麻烦了。 |
be/feel hard done by
受到不公平待遇;感到委屈to be or feel unfairly treated
| She has every right to feel hard done by─her parents have given her nothing. 她完全有理由觉得委屈,她父母什么都没给她。 |
be hard pressed/pushed to do sth|be hard put (to it) to do sth
很难做某事to find it very difficult to do sth
| He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance. 他很难对她的消失作出解释。 |
be hard up for sth
某物匮乏to have too few or too little of sth
| We're hard up for ideas. 我们再想不出主意了。 |
hard on sth
| His death followed hard on hers. 她死后不久,他也死了。 |
take sth hard
为某事很苦恼(或难受)to be very upset by sth
| He took his wife's death very hard. 他对妻子的死感到很难过。 |
英汉解释
adj. | 1. (问题,工作等)困难的,费力的;(人)难对付的 2. (人等)冷酷的,(天气)严酷的;(雇主等)刻薄的 18. 【军】(飞弹)可从地下发射并发射的;设于地下可防核攻击的 |
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英英解释
例句
Just a few years ago, it would be hard to imagine these people even knowing each other, let alone engaging in a deep collaborative process.
就在几年以前,还很难想象这些官员能够相互认识,更不要说进行深入的合作了。
A sudden fall in sales will leave them without cash at a time when bank overdrafts are hard to secure or to increase.
销售的突然下降将让他们没有现金,同时银行透支额也很难保证或增加。
Keep calm at least When you had fallen to the bottom of your life, every people around you would tell you: Be hard-bitten and be happy!
在你跌入人生谷底的时候,你身旁所有的人都告诉你:要坚强,而且要快乐。
It's hard to get used to the idea because usually you win trophies as a team and that's what I enjoy so much.
很难适应这个消息,因为通常会作为球队的一分子赢得奖杯,那是我非常享受的事情。
He's training very hard here in Iceland on his vacation and he's going to be well prepared for the next season.
假期中,他在冰岛训练的非常刻苦,他正在为下赛季做充分的准备。
'It is too late, 'she said, her voice hard and her eyes shining unnaturally.
“太晚了,”她说。她声音有些刺耳,眼睛的光芒也是躲躲闪闪的。
Injuries are the enemy of a footballer. Seeing your mates on the pitch, winning games is hard.
伤病是球员的敌人,当你看到你的队友在球场上赢得比赛时,这很让人难受。
Despite a moderate hype, it is hard to point to many youngsters ready to break into the first team.
尽管经过大肆宣传,但还是得指出,许多年轻人还无法打入一线队。
Even without the north-south divide, however, Vale might have had a hard time putting its stamp on its new acquisition.
不过,即使没有这种南北分歧,淡水河谷可能还是难以在这家新收购的企业打上自己的印记。
With all that repeated code, you're bound to have inconsistencies, and it will be hard to maintain.
对于所有重复的代码,一定会出现不一致性,因此将很难进行维护。
It's not just low volume or poor reception that makes it hard to hear people on the other end of a mobile phone call, say US researchers.
美国研究人员认为:不只是音量过小或调节不当导致手机那头的声音难以听到。
It's hard to make sense, feels as if I'm sensing you through a lens.
这种感觉很难表达,就像我正通过镜头感觉你们一样。
They had not lived long enough or hard enough to possess those qualities that interested him.
她们生活经历不够长,或者还不知生活艰辛,因此没有这种足以吸引他的气质。
What I learned: Junk food is a habit, just as hard to break as cigarettes or alcohol.
从中,我认识到了:吃垃圾食品,其实是一种习惯,和戒烟戒酒一样很难。
It will be hard to say goodbye but I'm very much at peace with the next custodian of this property and that's the best way to look at it.
说再见是很难,不过我同遗迹的下一个监护人之间倒很平静,这是最理想的应对之道。
Trying to accumulate wealth by the sweat of your brow and hard labor is one way to become the richest man in the graveyard.
试图通过辛苦的体力劳动来积累财富,那么,你有可能会在垂暮之年变成最富有的人。
We are a hard-working family trying to practise our religion whilst living in a Western society.
我们是一个在西方社会里辛勤工作的家庭,我们同时践行着我们的宗教。
As with an actual gold mine, you still have to work hard to get the gold out of it.
可是,和真正的金矿一样,你仍需要努力工作挖掘金矿。
Trying to work out what is going on in trace is hard enough without things appearing to occur at the wrong time.
如果没有事情似乎在错误的时间发生,那么尝试弄清跟踪数据中发生了什么是相当困难的。
For you weigh men down with burdens hard to bear, while you yourselves will not even touch the burdens with one of your fingers.
因为你们把难担的担子放在人身上,自己一个指头却不肯动。
In the second place I have been going at it as hard as any one of you.
其次,我也象你们一样一直在为之忙乎。
The wind was blowing hard, and the ship was forced to lay to.
风刮得正紧,船被迫顶风停驶。
It was good to see her finally reaping the benefits of all her hard work.
看到她终于收获辛勤劳动的成果令人欣慰。
Oh, it was hard that such a diamond should be changed away against such a false stone as this.
啊,怎么能把这么一颗钻石跟那粒假宝石等量齐观呢?
Whatever I do, you can see for yourself it must be hard upon a man of any pride.
不管我怎么干,你自己也可以看出,这对于有一点自尊心的人,一定是很难受的。
It takes years of hard work to be an excellent interpreter.
要成为一名优秀的口译员,要经过多年的艰苦努力。
In a hard-format, actual holes are punched on the disk, to mark the beginning of the new sector.
硬格式是在软盘上冲出若干个孔,作为新段的起始标志。
The examination is difficult but most of my students should be able to struggle through if they work hard.
考试很难,但如果他们努力学习,我的大多数学生都能设法通过的。
He ran hard and tried to catch up to his classmates.
他拼命奔跑,想赶上他的同学。
Politics was not the only subject debated in the hard rock of the sixties.
在六十年代疯狂摇滚乐的“辩论”中,政治并非是唯一的主题。
Without a word I seized the bottle by the neck and hit him over the head with it as hard as I could.
我二话没说,一把攥住瓶颈,使出全身气力,狠狠地砸在他的头上。
It was hard to believe that you could have so many complicated sensations all through your body just holding a girl's hand.
简直很难相信,光是握着一个姑娘的手就能使你全身有这许多复杂的感觉。
She hoped that when Nixon told it to me the next morning I would not give him a hard time.
她希望第二天上午尼克松同我谈起这件事时,我不要使他难堪。
It had been a hard day's work and when we stopped for supper I was ready to chow down.
紧张地劳动了一天,当停下来吃晚饭时我早已准备好大吃一顿了。
There was something in her face-a look of life hard--lived, the mysterious impress of emotions, experience, and suffering.
她脸上有一种--一种历尽坎坷的神情,和喜怒哀乐,阅历与痛苦留下的神秘痕迹。
It was easy to think this; but it was hard to brace himself up to try it.
这事情想想倒是容易;可是他却很难壮起胆来试一下。
The hard lines in his aunt's face relaxed and a sudden tenderness dawned in her eyes.
他姨妈脸上那些严肃的皱纹松开了,她眼睛里忽然闪出慈爱的光来。
She made no concession to his age; she expected him to work as hard as she did.
她丝毫也不体谅他的年龄,要求他干得像她一样卖力。
The doctor took off his glasses and polished them slowly, attentively, then he put them on and looked at me hard.
医生取下眼镜,细心地慢慢擦着镜片,然后戴上逼视着我。
It was hard to believe that this little animal could kill one of the deadliest creatures on earth.
实在难相信这个小动物能杀死世界上一种最凶的动物。
It was snowing hard as I beat through the passes of the great mountains, and I had a stiff fight to win through.
正当我飞越丛山峻岭时,又下起大雪来,我不得不同风雪进行激烈的搏斗并战胜它。
It would be a fearful thing to fall into the hands of these hard, uncouth men without legal papers.
没有合法的证件,万一落入那些狼心狗肺的家伙手里,那将是件非常可怕的事情。
It was during this dialogue, or hard on the heels of it, that the town was subjected to a monster revival meeting.
就在这次交谈中,或者紧接着这次谈话,城里举行了一次规模巨大的福音布道会。
It's no easy to pound a nail into a hard board.
把钉子敲进硬木板不容易。
At any rate it seems a little hard to blame Holmes and his Boston, especially as he loved the place.
无论如何,我们好象不应该过分责备霍姆斯和他的波士顿,特别是因为他喜欢那个地方。
His vices were no barrier to Hitler's collaboration with him along the hard and dangerous part to power.
他的劣行并不妨碍希特勒和他在夺取政权这条艰苦而危险的道路上互相合作。
They were ordered to bear down hard on his friends, enemies, associates, family, and his contacts with them in the last seven years.
要他们严密侦察他的朋友,死对头,同事,家属以及近七年来同他有过接触的人。
Celia had met such people before; it was always hard to involve them in a thoughtful, objective conversation.
西莉亚过去碰到过这种人,让他们一起坐下来,进行深思熟虑,平心静气的谈话总是很困难。
He managed her back and neck, and instinctively his hand slipped forward over her shoulders and he felt her hard breasts.
他给她按摩背和颈脖,手渐渐本能地向前胸探去,摸着了她并不发达的乳房。
She was poor, quite alone, and had had a hard time in London, both before and after her husband died.
她贫穷,相当孤单,在她丈夫生前生后,她曾在伦敦过着艰难的生活。
If it's hard for me to walk up them steps now, it's 'cause I walked up them every night to lay next to a man who loved me.
如果我现在爬不上楼梯,那是因为我每天都爬好去躺在爱我的男人身边。
Just at this point he met his soul's sworn comrade, Joe Harper -- hard-eyed , and with evidently a great and dismal purpose in his heart.
恰在此时,他遇到了他的铁哥们儿乔•哈帕——他两眼发直,显然心怀鬼胎。
he used to swim very often as he did not have to work so hard.
他以前常常去游泳,因为他不必那么卖力的工作。
His mother discourage him from joining the navy, saying that it was a hard life, but he refused to be discouraged.
他母亲劝阻他不要参加海军,说海军生活很艰苦,但他不为所动。
As you know Joyce had a hard time with this sinthome.
你们知道,乔埃斯跟这个病徵奋斗很长一段时间。
Definitions also bring paradox: Western civilization began in what is now Iraq, but it would be hard to make a case now for Iraq as Western.
定义同样会带来矛盾:西方文明始于当代的被称做伊拉克的地方,但已很难把伊拉克当做西方国家的一个例子;
She made no concession to his age; she expected him to work as hard as she did.
她丝毫也不体谅他的年龄,要求他干得像她一样卖力。
At a time like this their savings can spare them a great deal of suffering and help to see them through the hard time.
碰到像这样的情况,存款可以让我们免去许多痛苦,帮助我们渡过难关。
I tried really hard to get out of this school, and only now do I realise just how much I want to stay.
我曾经很想逃出这所学校,但是现在才知道我是多么想留下来。
'It's hard to even imagine just how much water was displaced, ' said Lynda Lastowka, seismologist at the United States Geological Survey.
美国地质调查局(UnitedStatesGeologicalSurvey)的地震学家拉斯托卡(LyndaLastowka)说,难以想象有多少海水被挪移开来。
It is hard to see any one plan meeting the need of such a diverse group of countries.
很难找出一种能同时满足这些不同情况国家需求的方案。
"We had worked so hard and long that we were ready to give up and find another site, " Schuster said in a press release.
“我们费尽了力气,已经准备着换个地方了,”舒斯特在一篇新闻稿中说道。
She was by this time a woman of hard on sixty, but she bore her years well, and no one would have taken her for more than fifty.
这时思特里克兰德太太已经快六十岁了,但是她的相貌一点儿也不显老,谁也不会相信她是五十开外的人。
But without a reliable currency benchmark, it is hard to set accurate prices or to value assets.
没有了可靠的汇率基准,很难进行准确的商品定价和资产评估。
It is not at all hard to paint a picture of the future that has the US and China fighting it out for the title of superpower-in-chief.
要描绘中美两国为争夺“超级强国之首”的头衔而大打出手的未来一点也不难。
But in the case of oil prices, it's hard to see that speculators are playing much of a role.
但在油价的案例中,很难看出投机者起到了多大作用。
Think of your parents and your benefactor, who have worked very hard to pay for your studies, and try to fulfill your obligations.
想想你的父母和那些帮助你的人,他们辛苦工作,供你读书,所以要努力完成自己的义务。
Since we've been working so hard I think it's time to call it a day.
我们已经工作那么辛苦了,我想今天该停工了。
It had been a hard day's work and when we stopped for supper I was ready to chow down.
紧张地劳动了一天,当停下来吃晚饭时我早已准备好大吃一顿了。
It is hard to avoid the conclusion that healthcare organisations should not really be trying to maximise revenue.
我们很难不得出这样的结论:医疗机构不应真的努力实现收入最大化。
He could also be very disagreeable and say hard and sour things.
他有时也颇使人难堪,出语尖酸刻薄。
The singer worked hard on the clear articulation of every note.
歌手苦练以便每一个音都唱得清晰。
"The ocean is very big and a skiff is small and hard to see, " the old man said.
“海洋很大,船小,不容易看出来,”老头儿说。
Well, well, better thoughts are hard to be borne at all times, but there's time when they're harder than at others.
好啦,好啦,悔恨在任何时候都是痛苦的,只是有时候它使人格外痛苦。
She had hard times trying to curb the fiery spirit which was continually getting her into trouble.
她苦苦地想羁勒住一再导致她不幸的躁脾气。
Deerslayer adjusted his hard pillow, stretched his form in the bottom of the canoe and slept.
打鹿将整理了一下头上硬邦邦的枕头,伸直身子,躺在船底睡着了。
"Well, let him come; it shall go hard with him! " he ground his teeth.
“哼,让他来吧;也叫他知道我的厉害!”他咬牙切齿地说。
All that hard work really did me in.
那个苦活干下来真把我累死了。
He made it very hard for me.
他对我百般刁难。
Straight, strong and hard, there was nothing in his appearance that spoke positively either of youth or of age.
他挺拔、健壮,从他外表的任何一处,都很难判断他年轻或年老。