| 单词 | hard-boiled |
| 释义 | hard-boiled —hard-boiledness, n. /hahrd"boyld"/, adj. 1. Cookery. (of an egg) boiled in the shell long enough for the yolk and white to solidify. 2. Informal. tough; unsentimental: a hard-boiled vice-squad detective. 3. marked by a direct, clear-headed approach; realistic: a hard-boiled appraisal of the foreign situation. 4. (of detective fiction) written in a laconic, dispassionate, often ironic style for a realistic, unsentimental effect. [1715-25; 1895-80 for def. 2; HARD + BOILED] |
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