单词 | tough |
释义 | Word Frequency tough(tʌf) adjective 1. strong or resilient; durable a tough material 2. not tender she could not eat the tough steak 3. having a great capacity for endurance; hardy and fit a tough mountaineer 4. rough or pugnacious a tough gangster 5. resolute or intractable a tough employer 6. difficult or troublesome to do or deal with a tough problem 7. informal unfortunate or unlucky it's tough on him noun 8. a rough, vicious, or pugnacious person adverb 9. informal violently, aggressively, or intractably to treat someone tough 10. hang tough verb 11. (transitive) slang to stand firm, hold out against (a difficulty or difficult situation) (esp in tough it out) Derived forms toughish (ˈtoughish) adjective toughly (ˈtoughly) adverb Word origin Old English tōh; related to Old High German zāhi tough, Old Norse tā trodden ground in front of a house |
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