| 单词 | tough-necked | 
| 释义 | > as lemmastough-necked  11.  In combination (chiefly parasynthetic) with other adjectives, as  tough-backed,  tough-hided (in quots. figurative),  tough-looking,  tough-metalled,  tough-necked,  tough-shelled,  tough-skinned,  tough-strung. ΚΠ 1637    J. Fletcher  & P. Massinger Elder Brother  v. i. sig. I3v  				A true tough metal'd blade. 1682    N. O. tr.  N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin  ii. 14  				A tough-back't Knave. 1768    A. Tucker Light of Nature 		(1834)	 I. 644  				Their solid bones, their tough-strung muscles, their strong-bounding blood. 1825    S. T. Coleridge Let. to J. Gillman in  Lett. 		(1895)	 743  				Nature is..tough-lived as a turtle. 1826    M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 132  				A tall, spare, tough-looking woman, with a long bony face. 1872    R. Browning Fifine xxxi  				Unsensitive, tough-thonged In lieu of our fine nerve. 1925    D. H. Lawrence St. Mawr 158  				She felt a peculiar tough-necked arrogance in him. 1930    R. Lehmann Note in Music  vi. 249  				It would take a good deal..to harm a tough-hided old hippopotamus like Uncle Tom. 1933    C. S. Lewis Pilgrim's Regress  vii. v. 146  				I always think it is possible for a place to be too bracing. They call it the land of the tough-minded—tough-skinned would be a better name. 1964    Listener 30 Apr. 731/3  				A tough-hided, soft-centred, north-country, working-class dramatist. < as lemmas | 
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