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单词 character-building
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Definition of character-building in English:

character-building

(also character-forming)
adjective
  • Requiring effort or endurance to a degree that strengthens or improves a person's character.

    the national tour proved to be a tremendous character-building experience
    the character-forming benefits of National Service
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Bullying must be recognised as the unacceptable, antisocial behaviour that it is, and not dismissed as a jolly, character-forming part of everyone's childhood.
    • I simply do not believe that forcing people to take part in something that may not be suitable for them against their will is character forming.
    • The road to her success has been long, and character-building.
    • Working for their supper will be character forming.
    • This season was certainly character-building, but we have come out the other side and are hoping for some good results in the winter.
    • He looks back on his seven years with Manly United as character-forming, and invaluable in terms of real-life experience.
    • I can tell members that fronting up to a country hall full of angry ratepayers and explaining one's actions is character building.
    • "The past year ... let's just say it has been character-forming," says Mr Cosslett with a laugh.
    • School is character-building, just like rugby, chess and other contact sports.
    • Today, each stage of a child's development is catered for with a myriad of mind-stimulating, character-building, preparing-for-life toys.
    • He has been through experiences that could be considered character buildingand has emerged as a more rounded individual who knows that his time to lead the team is now or never.
    • Looking back, he now considers that experience character-building.
    • The trip I went on was rather more character-building, to say the least.
    • My five day trek climbing in the Andes was certainly character-building.
    • Cold showers, self-denial, and a daily ration of physical discomfort were considered character-forming.
    • Whilst you cheerfully remind me that situations like this are character-building, and I'm sure they are, the last eleven weeks have been extremely hard going.
    • Bell insists that those early Ashes experiences were character-forming even if personally challenging.
    • He is a product of a harsh, character-forming, coal-mining background and never forgot where he came from.
    • Coming from the guy who thinks recessions are character building, I guess this is to be expected.
    • Afterwards, he described coming through such a match as "character-building".
 
 

Definition of character-building in US English:

character-building

(also character-forming)
adjective
  • Requiring effort or endurance to a degree that strengthens or improves a person's character.

    the national tour proved to be a tremendous character-building experience
    the character-forming benefits of National Service
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He has been through experiences that could be considered character buildingand has emerged as a more rounded individual who knows that his time to lead the team is now or never.
    • My five day trek climbing in the Andes was certainly character-building.
    • Whilst you cheerfully remind me that situations like this are character-building, and I'm sure they are, the last eleven weeks have been extremely hard going.
    • Working for their supper will be character forming.
    • The road to her success has been long, and character-building.
    • "The past year ... let's just say it has been character-forming," says Mr Cosslett with a laugh.
    • He looks back on his seven years with Manly United as character-forming, and invaluable in terms of real-life experience.
    • School is character-building, just like rugby, chess and other contact sports.
    • Today, each stage of a child's development is catered for with a myriad of mind-stimulating, character-building, preparing-for-life toys.
    • Bell insists that those early Ashes experiences were character-forming even if personally challenging.
    • The trip I went on was rather more character-building, to say the least.
    • Bullying must be recognised as the unacceptable, antisocial behaviour that it is, and not dismissed as a jolly, character-forming part of everyone's childhood.
    • This season was certainly character-building, but we have come out the other side and are hoping for some good results in the winter.
    • Looking back, he now considers that experience character-building.
    • I simply do not believe that forcing people to take part in something that may not be suitable for them against their will is character forming.
    • Afterwards, he described coming through such a match as "character-building".
    • Coming from the guy who thinks recessions are character building, I guess this is to be expected.
    • He is a product of a harsh, character-forming, coal-mining background and never forgot where he came from.
    • I can tell members that fronting up to a country hall full of angry ratepayers and explaining one's actions is character building.
    • Cold showers, self-denial, and a daily ration of physical discomfort were considered character-forming.
 
 
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