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单词 hard-lived
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hard-lived
hard-lived adj. (a) that clings tenaciously to life (cf. to die hard at die v.1 3b); also figurative; (b) (of a period of time) spent in hardship or reckless living.
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1696 tr. A. Duquesne New Voy. E.-Indies xlv. 170 I believe there is no creature in the World so hard liv'd, and difficult to kill.
1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 146 The wretched never die when it is fittest that they should die, and women are hard-liv'd to a proverb.
1788 G. Widegren Svenskt och Engelskt Lexicon 896/1 Seglifvad, hard lived.
1825 J. F. Cooper Pioneers II. v. 61 When a body knows how to shoot, one piece of lead is enough for all, except hard-lived animals.
1862 Dublin Q. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 33 66 In some hard-lived men, bronchitis and flatulence, chiefly the result of assuming the recumbent posture, came on.
1901 H. Drummond Seven Houses i. 1 He had..paced the broad hall up and down with a tread whose firmness told little of his five-and-seventy years of hard-lived life.
2001 T. Peterson Treasures of North i. 16 The scandal would be hard-lived, and..Myrtle knew how tongues would wag if the proprieties were overlooked.
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