| 单词 | hard-fought |
| 释义 | > as lemmashard-fought hard-fought adj. fought, contested, or played with much effort, or in difficult circumstances; cf. hard-won adj. at Compounds 1c(b). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [adjective] > that is the subject of contention > strongly contested stiffc1250 hard-fought1633 well-disputed1654 pull devil, pull baker (also parson, tailor, etc.)1778 ding-dong1795 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue v. xi. sig. Eiv A hard foughten feeld, where no man scapeth vnkyld.] 1633 W. Watts Swedish Intelligencer: 3rd & 4th Pts. iii. 153 The reason now, the slaughter was no greater, in such a long and hard fought battell: was for that there was no chase after the Victory. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. xlix. 110 A hard-fought day, as the two armies alternately yielded and advanced. 1855 Knickerbocker Apr. 335 A ball through his frontal bone Laid him flat on his back on the hard-fought ground. 1920 Sat. Evening Post 29 May 20/1 This campaign enabled Mr. Allen..to be nominated without making a speech or even writing a letter, in a hard-fought primary contest. 2010 T. Mason & E. Riedi Sport & Mil. ii. 58 Drawn games were decided by ‘subsidiary goals’ (near misses, in effect) to avoid dangerous scrimmages at the end of hard-fought matches. < as lemmas |
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