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hard-boiled

/hahrd-boild/US // ˈhɑrdˈbɔɪld //

煮熟的,煮沸的,煮沸,煮熟了的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Cooking. boiled in the shell long enough for the yolk and white to solidify.
    • : Informal. tough; unsentimental: a hard-boiled vice-squad detective.
    • : marked by a direct, clear-headed approach; realistic: a hard-boiled appraisal of the foreign situation.
    • : written in a laconic, dispassionate, often ironic style for a realistic, unsentimental effect.

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Examples

  • Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.

  • But so-called jungle primaries are notoriously hard to predict or poll.

  • My body used for his hard pleasure; a stone god gripping me in his hands.

  • All of my stories are about people trying hard not to grow up.

  • We also have a growing body of biological research showing that fathers, like mothers, are hard-wired to care for children.

  • He thought they were now in touch with our troops at "X" but that they had been through some hard fighting to get there.

  • However this be, it is hard to say that these fibs have that clear intention to deceive which constitutes a complete lie.

  • And it would be hard indeed, if so remote a prince's notions of virtue and vice were to be offered as a standard for all mankind.

  • Even if poverty were gone, the flail could still beat hard enough upon the grain and chaff of humanity.

  • "I congratulate you on your engagement," he said at last, looking up with a face that seemed to Bernard hard and unnatural.