| 单词 | tough |
| 释义 | tough (once / 169 pages) 1adj 2adjn 3adj The adjective tough is good for describing hard times. If you just got mugged, lost your job, got the flu, and broke your toe, you're having a really tough week. Tough means "strong, hard, unbending," and you can use it to describe many different things, like a tough exam, or a tough piece of beef jerky, or a tough day that you just want to be over. If a judge punishes criminals harshly to set examples, she's "tough on crime." We call people toughs if they seem likely to beat you up. Tough things are made to withstand a beating, like the tires on your mountain bike. Pronounce: TUFF. WORD FAMILYtough: toughen, tougher, toughest, toughly, toughness, toughs+/toughen: toughened, toughening, toughens/toughened: untoughened USAGE EXAMPLES“It’s a tough decision. But for all the right reasons.” Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Scot McCloughan’s toughest job of the offseason involves finding the most effective way to overhaul a defense that’s sorely lacking in talent. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) Fleeing the prospect of a tough race, Forbes ran in the neighboring Republican district, anchored by Virginia Beach. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1adj substantially made or constructed a tough all-weather fabric some plastics are as tough as metal Syn sturdy rugged sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring 2adj physically toughened the tough bottoms of his feet Syn|Ant toughened rugged sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring experienced, experienthaving experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation stronghaving strength or power greater than average or expected callous, calloused, thickenedhaving calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear enured, hardened, inuredmade tough by habitual exposure weather-beatentanned and coarsened from being outdoors tender, untoughened physically untoughened weakwanting in physical strength delicate, softeasily hurt 3adj resistant to cutting or chewing 2Syn|Ant inedible, uneatable not suitable for food cartilaginous, gristly, rubberydifficult to chew chewyrequiring much chewing coriaceous, leathered, leatherlike, leatheryresembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable fibrous, sinewy, stringy, unchewable(of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew fibrous, hempenhaving or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute tough-skinnedhaving a relatively tough outer covering tender easy to cut or chew comestible, eatable, ediblesuitable for use as food chewable, cuttableeasy to cut or chew crisp, crispytender and brittle flakey, flakymade of or easily forming flakes tenderised, tenderizedmade tender as by marinating or pounding 1adj violent and lawless tough street gangs Syn ruffianly violent acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity 2adj not given to gentleness or sentimentality a tough character Syn|Ant hard dispassionate insensitivedeficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive hard-bitten, hard-boiled, pugnacioustough and callous by virtue of experience tough-minded, unsentimentalfacing facts or difficulties realistically and with determination tender given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality softcompassionate and kind; conciliatory protectiveshowing care sentimentalgiven to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality 3n a cruel and brutal fellow Syn|Hypo|Hyper bully, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, yob, yobbo, yobo bullyboy a swaggering tough; usually one acting as an agent of a political faction muscle, musclemana bully employed as a thug or bodyguard skinheada young person who belongs to a British or American group that shave their heads and gather at rock concerts or engage in white supremacist demonstrations plug-ugly, tough guysomeone who bullies weaker people Ted, Teddy boya tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker someone who attacks 4n an aggressive and violent young criminal Syn|Hypo|Hyper goon, hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, toughie bully a hired thug criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime 5n someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing 3Syn|Hyper street fighter battler, belligerent, combatant, fighter, scrapper someone who fights (or is fighting) 1adj very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution the competition was tough it's a tough life it was a tough job Syn rugged difficult, hard not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure 2adj unfortunate or hard to bear a tough break Syn hard bad having undesirable or negative qualities 3adj making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe Syn baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical difficult, hard not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure 4adj feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad') he was feeling tough after a restless night Syn bad uncomfortable providing or experiencing physical discomfort |
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