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thick-skinned

/thik-skind/US // ˈθɪkˈskɪnd //

脸皮厚,厚脸皮,脸皮厚的,脸皮很厚

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having a thick skin.
    • : insensitive or hardened to criticism, reproach, rebuff, etc.

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Examples

  • But the people from Valley Stream had such a thick New York accent that was all around me.

  • That officer believed my fair-skinned son was white, according to the traffic citation I examined.

  • His chin rested on the thick plastic collar buckled around his neck.

  • At the highest navigable point of the Congo River, thick jungle creates an impenetrable wall of green around a large island.

  • Small rooms off its graffiti-covered foyer provide shelter from the thick rain that can unexpectedly, and vengefully, hit.

  • We stumbled along, close up, for the thick-piled clouds still hung their light-obscuring banners over the sky.

  • The eyebrows were low and thick, the upper lip was sensitive, quivering sometimes as she talked, but the lower was firm and full.

  • Cystin crystals are colorless, highly refractive, rather thick, hexagonal plates with well-defined edges.

  • In a voice thick with the torturing rage of impotence he gave the order upon which the grim Parisian insisted.

  • She locks the door behind them, and throws the key among the nettles that grew in a thick grove at her right.