hard

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英[hɑːd]
美[hɑːrd]

基本释义

adj.
困难的; 硬的; 有力的; 努力的
adv.
努力地; 猛力地; 严重地; 沉重地

词性变化

实用例句

I wanted her and she was playing hard to get.

我想得到她,但她却故意装出不感兴趣的样子。

California's been particularly hard hit by the recession.

加利福尼亚受经济衰退的影响尤为严重。

The talks had been hard going at the start.

会谈从一开始就举步维艰。

The hall porter was feeling hard done by at having to extend his shift.

酒店行李搬运工因为被迫延长当班时间而愤愤不平。

Paradise Street was a short, crowded street near the railway station and hard by the factory.

天堂街是火车站附近一条拥挤的小街道,离该工厂很近。

There are probably fewer hard facts about the life of Henry Purcell than that of any other great composer since the Renaissance.

有关亨利·普赛尔生平的可靠资料可能比任何其他文艺复兴以来的伟大作曲家都要少。

He wanted more hard evidence...

他想要更多确凿的证据。

The sea was a hard blue.

大海呈一片耀眼的蓝色。

I am expecting a long, hard winter.

我估计冬天会漫长而寒冷。

...a prolonged period of hard frost...

漫长的强霜冻期

Those were hard times.

那些岁月是非常艰难的。

It had been a hard life for her...

对她而言,那是一段非常艰苦的生活。

These last four years have been hard on them.

过去的这四年里他们吃了不少苦。

The grey light was hard on the eyes...

光线暗淡对眼睛不利。

Don't be so hard on him.

别对他太苛刻了。

Kate realized that the previous hard look on Maggie's face had been a mask.

凯特意识到玛吉原先的那副冷酷表情其实是装出来的。

His father was a hard man...

他的父亲是个冷酷无情的人。

It was snowing hard by then.

当时雪下得很大。

I've never seen Terry laugh so hard...

我从未见过特里如此放声大笑。

I kicked a dustbin very hard and broke my toe.

我狠狠地踢了一脚垃圾箱,结果脚趾骨折了。

He looked at me hard...

他使劲盯着我看。

You had to listen hard to hear the old man breathe...

你要仔细听才能听见老人的呼吸声。

...a hard day's work...

一天的辛苦工作

Coping with three babies is very hard work...

照顾3个宝宝是非常累人的活儿。

Am I trying too hard?

我是不是努力过头了?

I'll work hard. I don't want to let him down...

我会努力工作,我不想让他失望。

She found it hard to accept some of the criticisms directed towards her and her work...

她发现某些针对自己和自己工作的批评意见很难接受。

It's hard to tell what effect this latest move will have...

很难说最近这次行动会有什么结果。

Something cold and hard pressed into the back of his neck.

一个冰冷梆硬的东西顶在了他的脖梗儿上。

He shuffled his feet on the hard wooden floor...

他拖着脚在硬木地板上走动。

真题例句

You feel the same emotions – it is just as raw, just as fresh… You can't turn off that stream of memories, no matter how hard you try.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

This is hard to achieve when, as is now the case in many big firms, a large proportion of staff are temporary contractors.

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The least that can be concluded from this research is that companies need to think harder about managing teams.

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Some team members find it hard to agree on questions like membership and the team's purpose.

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Some people with HSAM find it very hard to get rid of unpleasant memories.

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It can be very hard to forget embarrassing moments, says Donohue.

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In fact, there is almost no hard evidence for midlife crisis other than a few small pilot studies conducted decades ago, Barbara Hagerty writes in her new book, Life Reimagined.

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If it is hard enough to define a team's membership, agreeing on its purpose is harder still.

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Auto makers and tech companies are working hard to offer the first true selfdriving car.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

What about supply? The three environmental trends—the shortage of fresh water, the loss of topsoil and the rising temperatures—are making it increasingly hard to expand the world's grain supply fast enough to keep up with demand.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Since industrialization, maintaining such a slow cultural metabolism has been much harder, with the long midday meal shrinking to whatever could be stuffed into a lunch bucket or bought at a food stand.

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Patterns of childhood eating can be hard to break when we're adults, which may mean that kids of depressed moms end up dying younger.

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Does assisted living really mark a great improvement over a nursing home, or has the industry simply hired better interior designers? Are nursing homes as bad as people fear, or is that an out-moded stereotype ? Can doing one's homework really steer families to the best places? It is genuinely hard to know.

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We can cultivate a growth mind-set in children by telling success stories that emphasize hard work and love of learning.

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They understood that even geniuses have to work hard.

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They thought that a person with talent or intelligence did not need to work hard to do well.

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They had negative views of effort, believing that having to work hard was a sign of low ability.

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They find it ever harder to cope with sugar-induced health problems.

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The mastery-oriented children, on the other hand, think intelligence is not fixed and can be developed through education and hard work.

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The author's experiment shows that students with a fixed mind-set believe having to work hard is an indication of low ability.

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In fact, vaguely-stated possibilities of winning a prize were more effective than options with hard odds included.

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In addition, they held hard work in high regard.

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How do we transmit a growth mind-set to our children? One way is by telling stories about achievements that result from hard work.

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Confronted by a setback such as a disappointing test grade, students with a growth mind-set said they would study harder or try a different strategy.

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Another group of helpless children who were simply rewarded for their success on easier problems did not improve their ability to solve hard math problems.

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Why do so many Americans eat tons of processed food, the stuff that is correctly called junk and should really carry warning labels? It's not because fresh ingredients are hard to come by.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

The assumption is that children shouldn't chat in the classroom because it hinders hard work; instead, they should learn to delay gratification so that they can pursue abstract goals, like going to college.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Should a woman who possessed a small amount of drugs years ago be permanently unable to be licensed as a nurse?These laws are also counterproductive, since they make it harder for people with criminal records to find housing or land a job, two key factors that reduce backsliding.

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Passionate, energetic debate does not require anger and hard feelings to be effective.

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Its success is hard to copy anywhere else.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Instead of trying to get children to work hard, why not focus on getting them to take pleasure in meaningful, productive activity, like making things, working with others, exploring ideas, and solving problems? These focuses are not so different from the things in which they delight.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Could you reproduce Silicon Valley elsewhere, or is there something unique about it?It wouldn't be surprising if it were hard to reproduce in other countries, because you couldn't reproduce it in most of the US either.

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Considering that the government's standards are not nearly ambitious enough, the picture is clear: by not cooking at home, we're not eating the right things, and the consequences are hard to overstate.

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Building on a child's ability to feel joy, rather than pushing it aside, wouldn't be that hard.

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Administrators seem to believe that only hard work will lead children to their educational goals.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

"I have been bothered for a long time about the curious lack of curiosity,"said a Democratic member of the New Jersey legislature back in July, referring to an insufficiently inquiring attitude on the part of an assistant to New Jersey Governor Chris Chri

2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

"In fact, there is almost no hard evidence for midlife crisis other than a few small pilot studies conducted decades ago," Barbara Hagerty writes in her new book, life Reimagined.

2017年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

"It can be very hard to forget embarrassing moments," says Donohue.

2017年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

Again, the point is to listen hard while keeping the pen moving.

2018年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

As he got in the habit of hard work, his grades began to soar.

2015年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

Auto makers and tech companies are working hard to offer the first true self-driving car.

2017年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

But it seems to me that it's actually very hard work.

2015年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

But scientists released a report Monday documenting, with hard evidence, the discovery of "lost lions".

2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

By and large, people felt that their actions and hard work—not outside forces—were the deciding factor in how their lives turned out.

2017年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Citing the work of psychologists and cognitive (认知的)scientists, Leslie criticizes the received wisdom that academic success is the result of a combination of intellectual talent and hard work.

2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

I can promise you one thing: whatever you choose to do for a career, if you work hard at it, eventually, special things will happen.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

I choose to believe in hard work, but not so much in talent.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

In other words, when it comes to cities—or anything else—it is hard to predict the future.

2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

In the early stages, drug use is often hard to see.

2015年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

Instead of trying to get children to work hard, why not focus on getting them to take pleasure in meaningful, productive activity, like making things, working with others, exploring ideas, and solving problems?

2015年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

It can be hard to identify which parcels are carrying crucial items such as Social Security checks, but USPS and UPS try their best to prioritize sensitive material.

2019年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

It is genuinely hard to know.

2016年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

It is often hard for them to find food.

2017年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

It wouldn't be surprising if it were hard to reproduce in other countries, because you couldn't reproduce it in most of the US either.

2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

It's not because fresh ingredients are hard to come by.

2015年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

One reason women may feel exhausted is that they have a hard time saying "no".

2017年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

One way is by telling stories about achievements that result from hard work.

2016年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Postal services work hard to identify items that require priority treatment.

2019年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

The assumption is that children shouldn't chat in the classroom because it hinders hard work; instead, they should learn to delay gratification so that they can pursue abstract goals, like going to college.

2015年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

The three environmental trends—the shortage of fresh water, the loss of topsoil and the rising temperatures—are making it increasingly hard to expand the world's grain supply fast enough to keep up with demand.

2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

There are no special people, just people who put in enough hard work until something special happens.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

They worked hard at whatever they did, but they had a sense of achievement.

2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

While alternative estimates of the damage from carbon emissions differ, and it's especially hard to reckon the likely costs of possible catastrophic climate events, most estimates suggest substantial negative effects.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Most American parents say they are not concerned about their children's grades as long as they work hard.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Whether this is right, and if so where and when the ecological axe will fall, is hard to determine with any precision—which is why governments and financial institutions are only beginning to bring such risks into their economic calculations.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

The changes would have to be approved or rejected as a whole by Congress, making it hard for narrow-interest lobbies to bend lawmakers to their will.

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Here are some of the important proposals in the House and Senate bills to try to address those problems, and why it is hard to know how well they will work.

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Changes in policy would be approved or rejected as a whole so that lobbyists would find it hard to influence lawmakers.

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But finding hard evidence to support the thesis is not so easy.

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With several monitoring stations operating in Antarctica, Russia is trying hard to counter America's dominance in the field of worldwide navigational facilities.

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Some countries have had a hard time here.

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It is hard to say whether it is good or bad.

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Companies are pushing it hard but make it almost overwhelming even to dip a toe in the water for the average consumer, because there are so many compatibility issues to think about.

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And it is hard not to think: Are we in an innovation lull ?In some ways, the answer is yes.

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Americans are working longer and harder hours than ever before.

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The outer layers of the volcano were worn away until the hard core stood completely exposed.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

That’s what hard-working men and women say to justify their lavish vacations, big stereo systems or regular restaurant meals.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

Whether it's a sports team or a presidential campaign, everybody relishes having the big momentum, because it makes them harder to stop or change direction.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

There is no doubt that spaceflight entails risks, and to pioneer a new mode of travel is to face those risks, and to reduce them with the benefit of hard-won experience.

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So a heavy object, like a football player moving at a high speed, has a lot of momentum — that is, once be is moving, it is hard to change his state of motion.

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No matter how hard you try, you can't turn something that large on a dime ,or even a few thousand dimes.

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It is easy to change a light bulb, sure, but it is harder to change the bulb and its fixture.

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It has tried hard to satisfy students' various needs.

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Inequality is dangerous, he argued, not merely because it doesn't look good to have a large gap between the rich and the poor, but because inequality itself destroys upward mobility, making it harder for the poor to escape from poverty.

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Despite mournful polar bears and charts showing carbon emissions soaring, most people find it hard to believe that global warming will affect them personally.

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As recent graduates can testify, the job market isn't kind to candidates who can't demonstrate genuine competence, along with a well-cultivated willingness to work hard.

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A number of prominent economists have also argued that it's harder for the poor to climb the economic ladder today because the rungs(横档) in that ladder have grown farther apart.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

"It's been hard not to share pictures of her because people always want to know how babies and toddler (学走路的孩子) are doing and to see pictures, but we made the decision to have social media while she did not," O'Hanlon said.

2018年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

And it is hard not to think: Are we in an innovation lull?

2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

And the funny thing is that if you love what you do and are really passionate about it and work really hard, the money kind of comes automatically.

2016年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

As careers and vocations become less available during times of recession, adolescents may be especially hard hit.

2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A

But convincing open-minded dairy people is actually not that hard, when you look at the economics.

2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

But the other team members were working as hard and long as he was.

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

Choosing the right career can be hard.

2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

Companies are pushing it hard but make it almost overwhelming even to dip a toe in the water for the average consumer, because there are so many compatibility issues to think about.

2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

For instance, DeWalt discovered that many contractors were holding on to their old tools, even if they no longer worked, because they were expensive purchases and it was hard to justify bringing them in to recycle.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Gathering your resources to "try hard" requires burning energy in order to overcome your currently low arousal level.

2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

He laid off several hundred workers; especially hard hit were the blue- and pink-collar departments such as subscription fulfillment.

2018年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

However, it is very hard to demonstrate causes using non-experimental data such as this.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

I had to be really persistent and it was very hard work.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

I know it's the end of high school, but many of my classmates are going on to the same university and we are still required to study hard, so what's the difference?

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

Kristi King, a diet specialist at Texas Children's Hospital, finds it's hard to get teenager patients' attention about healthy eating.

2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

Natural talent helps in some way, but at the end of the day you really do need to work hard and get really, really good at what you do.

2016年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

Navajo is hard to learn and only a few people know it.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

No matter how hard you try, you can't turn something that large on a dime, or even a few thousand dimes.

2015年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

Now, the only apparent cost to taking infinite photos of something as common as a meal is the space on your hard drive and your dining companion's patience.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Once upon a time, Americans thought that if they work hard enough even in the face of adversity, they would be rewarded with success.

2018年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

She found she did spend a lot less money because it is incredibly hard to predict how much cash one is going to need—she was forever drawing money out of Cashpoints.

2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

She is hard at work finding a way to take traits from rare wild plants that adapt to extreme dry weather and use them in food crops.

2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

So a heavy object, like a football player moving at a high speed, has a lot of momentum — that is, once he is moving, it is hard to change his state of motion.

2015年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

So far, machines have a pretty hard time emulating creativity, arbitrary enough not to be predicted by a computer, and yet more than simple randomness.

2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

So, as you see, it's very hard to say which one is better.

2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

The turmoil on the ground in physical retail is hard to square with the Census data.

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

Additionally, group exercise creates a community feel and the shared common goal motivates participants to work hard.

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

And I went into a speech about how hard I worked and the gains I was making.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文

But alternative explanations are hard to find.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 单项填空 原文

But sometimes it seems too hard to leave the sofa.

2019年高考英语全国卷I 听力 原文

By feeding the ponies, tourists increase the risk of them getting hit by a car, and make them harder to gather during the area's annual pony drift (迁移).

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

By then, Steve was having a hard time remembering the names of some of his friends.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Changing levels of body chemicals called hormones not only make teenagers' bodies develop adult characteristics, but also make it hard for teenagers to fall asleep before 11 pm.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Credibility is hard to earn but easy to lose, and the problem is only going to get harder from here on out.

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Dad sat me down and said, "Alice, I know it's hard, but it's all about persistence (坚持不懈)."

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读表达 原文

Daydreams are often very simple and direct, quite unlike sleep dreams, which may be hard to understand.

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 单项填空 选项

Exciting! But it was hard work.

2019年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

Finally, that hard work paid off and now the water in the river is cleaner than ever.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 语法填空 原文

Hard work is necessary in one's achievements.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 选项

Having your grandchildren far away is hard, especially knowing your adult child is struggling, but giving up the life you know may be harder.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Her years of hard work have finally been acknowledged after a customer nominated her to be cheshire's woman of the year.

2019年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

His son tried hard to finish homework.

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 选项

However, Helene did not want her daughters to always work in the family business because she thought it was too hard.

2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

However, it is also hard to keep a code book secret for long.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 七选五 原文

I find it hard to stop! Dancing reminds me I'm alive.

2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 七选五 原文

I have thought long and hard about it and it's true.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

I rode hard and fast home to tell my mother about this disaster.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

If Tononi's theory is right, it would explain why, when we miss a night's, we find it harder the next day to concentrate and learn new information — our brains may have smaller room for new experiences.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

If we work hard,we will find a way out.

2016年高考英语天津卷 答案 选项

If you are already making the time to exercise, it is good indeed! with such busy lives, it can be hard to try and find the time to work out.

2018年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 原文

I'm still having a hard time with the language.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 听力 原文

In his introduction, he made it clear that our credits would be hard-earned.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 完形填空 原文

In return, we expect students to work hard.

2017年高考英语天津卷 单项填空 原文

In such a situation, I work as hard as I can-then let the unconscious take over.

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

It also asked mothers about the challenges they face, with 80 percent making emotional demand as the hardest thing about motherhood.

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

It enables her to work hard.

2019年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 选项

It is very hard to break a code without the code book.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 七选五 选项

It's a hard business review of your product.

2019年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Its difficulties appear so great that, however hard we work, we fail again and again.

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

It's even harder to provides energy.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 任务型阅读 原文

It's hard to predict when driverless cars will be everywhere on our roads.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

It's harder than we expect to follow a new course.

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读D 选项

It's not all that hard to build an advanced and large vocabulary.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 语法填空 原文

Looking back on your day, you will find it hard to deny that a horseback safari is as close as you will ever come to answering the call of the wild.

2015年高考英语重庆卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Lots of people find it hard to get up in the morning and put the blame on the alarm clock.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Managing the family budget must have been a very hard task, but she made it look effortless.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Many people are working hard to preserve these ponies, and trying to come up with plans to find a sustainable future for one of dartmoor's most financially-troubled elements.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Mary has been working really hard on his book and thinks he'll have finished it by Friday.

2015年高考英语陕西卷 单项填空 原文

No matter how attractive they look in the store, once I get them home they're unfailingly dry, hard, and tasteless.

2015年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

On a summer evening in beijing in 2008, all those long, hard hours of work and commitment finally bore fruit.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

One afternoon, I was crossing the field to go home and saw Miller stuck going over a fence—which wasn't hard to climb if you had both arms.

2016年高考英语全国卷3 完形填空 原文

One should learn to enjoy hard times.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读D 选项

People speak very fast and it's hard to get them to repeat things.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 听力 原文

People, in general, are less warm here and it's hard to make friends.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 听力 原文

She had a hard time finishing the required reading tasks.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 选项

She practiced hard and finally made it.

2016年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文

She says these activities at bedtime can get kids all excited and make it hard for them to calm down and sleep.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

She showed the girls it was hard to break the tied chopsticks.

2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Some immigrant advocates worry that as hard financial times make it more difficult for natives to keep jobs, such measures will become more a vehicle for intolerance than integration.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

That night, hurricane sandy attacked the east coast, and rockaway was hit especially hard.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

The dark-colored road surface makes the youngsters hard to be noticed.

2019年高考英语全国卷I 听力 原文

The language in their contracts is usually harder to understand.

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

The students have been working hard on their lessons and their efforts will be rewarded success in the end.

2016年高考英语北京卷 单项选择 原文

The task was so hard, and Steve, angry and upset, said he was quitting.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

The team are working hard to analyze the problem so that they can find the best solution.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 单项选择 原文

The Winns soon discovered that daily hiking in their 50s is a lot harder than they remember it was in their 20s.

2018年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文

They are hard to get rid of.

2019年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 选项

They find it hard to make changes.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

They recognize there's something missing in their lives, but it's hard to step off the track.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 完形填空 原文

Thinking hard about it, I came to realize that my team might not be the number one team in georgia, but they were depending on me.

2018年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文

This isn't as hard as it sounds, and it is far better than any other method because you improve your vocabulary while reading an interesting piece of literature.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 语法填空 原文

Though I worked as hard as before, I felt no fatigue.

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Today, it's hard to find a public school, university, or law school that does not have such a kind of program.

2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

When a reader selects delayed reward news, he pulls himself into the world of surrounding reality to which he can adapt himself only by hard work.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 任务型阅读 原文

When Grylls heard about Nicholas' amazing deeds, he was super impressed that Nicholas had made it since he knew better than anyone how hard Nicholas had to work to stay alive.

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Working hard to get a bigger opportunity.

2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读B 选项

Your dad works very hard at the bank.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 听力 原文

One reason why it is hard to design and teach such courses is that they cut across the insistence by top American universities that liberal-arts education and professional education should be kept separate, taught in different schools.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

It’s hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous: most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

Even though the day-to-day experience of raising kids can be soul-crushingly hard, Senior writes that “the very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources of intense gratification and delight.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

The hardest task that television asks of anyone is to turn the power off after he has turned it on.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

Law-school debt means that they have to work fearsomely hard.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

It is financially terrifying, psychologically embarrassing and you know that support is minimal and extraordinarily hard to get.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

It is hard, the state argues, for judges to assess the implications of new and rapidly changing technologies.

出自-2015年考研阅读原文

It’s a really hard thing to do and it’s a tremendous luxury that BuzzFeed doesn’t have a legacy business,” Peretti remarked.

出自-2016年考研阅读原文

Likewise,automation should eventually boost productivity, stimulate demand by driving down prices, and free workers from hard, boring work.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

"It's a really hard thing to do and it's a tremendous luxury that BuzzFeed doesn't have a legacy business," Peretti remarked.

2016年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

"When I come home from a hard day's work, I often feel tired," Danaher says, adding,"In a world in which I don't have to work, I might feel rather different" - perhaps different enough to throw himself into a hobby or a passion project with the intensity

2017年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

An increase in involuntary part-time work is evidence of weakness in the labor market and it means that many people will be having a very hard time making ends meet.

2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

And picking crops is hard on older bodies.

2019年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

But because hard laughter is difficult to sustain, a good laugh is unlikely to have measurable benefits the way, say, walking or jogging does.

2011年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Certainly, it's incredibly hard to maintain patience at all times with your children.

2020年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Hard times may hold you down at what usually seems like the most inopportune time, but you should remember that they won't last forever.

2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Having said all of the above, it's important to add that we shouldn't try too hard to be happy.

2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Here's what hard science reveals about eye contact.

2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

I also found that weighing myself daily did not provide an accurate  depiction of the hard work and progress I was making in the gym.

2019年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

If you look hard enough, you'll find that many of the products we use every day—chewing gums, skin moisturizers, disinfecting wipes, air fresheners, water purifiers, health snacks, antiperspirants, colognes, teeth whiteners, fabric softeners, vitamins—are

2010年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

It is hard to get right, and requires a remarkable degree of vision, as well as cooperation between city authorities, the private sector, community.

2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

It is hard to shove for attention billionaire-pound infrastructure projects, so it is inevitable that the attention is focused elsewhere.

2014年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

It might also be hard for airlines to coordinate the departure times and destinations of passenger aircraft in a way that would allow them to gain from formation flight.

2010年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

It's hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous: most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut.

2011年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

It's not as hard for them to transform their thought processes as it is for older students.

2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

It's not hard to imagine a similar reversal happening in London.

2020年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

It's not hard to imagine that local culture and sentiment would help shape how executives think about the future. "It surely seems plausible that happy people would be more forward-thinking and creative and lean towards R&D more than the average," said on

2016年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

likewise, automation should eventually boost productivity, stimulate demand by driving down prices, and free workers from hard, boring work.

2018年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

One reason why it is hard to design and teach such courses is that they cut across the insistence by top American universities that "liberal-arts education and professional education should be kept separate, taught in different schools".

2011年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Scientists say the compound is "bound to be carcinogenic" but have no hard scientific proof.

2020年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

These epochal figures represented lives hard to imitate, but to be acknowledged as possessing higher authority than mere mortals.

2012年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

This suggests that the alleged "Hawthorne effect" is hard to pin down.

2010年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

We will have to wait and see exactly how these hard times will reshape our social fabric.

2012年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Adjective
  • 1. not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure;

    "a difficult task"

    "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"

    "difficult times"

    "a difficult child"

    "found himself in a difficult situation"

    "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"

  • 2. metaphorically hard;

    "a hard fate"

    "took a hard look"

    "a hard bargainer"

    "a hard climb"

  • 3. not yielding to pressure or easily penetrated;

    "hard as rock"

  • 4. very strong or vigorous;

    "strong winds"

    "a hard left to the chin"

    "a knockout punch"

    "a severe blow"

  • 5. characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort;

    "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"

    "a grueling campaign"

    "hard labor"

    "heavy work"

    "heavy going"

    "spent many laborious hours on the project"

    "set a punishing pace"

  • 6. of speech sounds

  • 7. of a drinker or drinking; indulging intemperately;

    "does a lot of hard drinking"

    "a heavy drinker"

  • 8. having undergone fermentation;

    "hard cider"

  • 9. having a high alcoholic content;

    "hard liquor"

  • 10. unfortunate or hard to bear;

    "had hard luck"

    "a tough break"

  • 11. dried out;

    "hard dry rolls left over from the day before"

Adverb
  • 1. with effort or force or vigor;

    "the team played hard"

    "worked hard all day"

    "pressed hard on the lever"

    "hit the ball hard"

    "slammed the door hard"

  • 2. with firmness;

    "held hard to the railing"

  • 3. earnestly or intently;

    "thought hard about it"

    "stared hard at the accused"

  • 4. causing great damage or hardship;

    "industries hit hard by the depression"

    "she was severely affected by the bank's failure"

  • 5. slowly and with difficulty;

    "prejudices die hard"

  • 6. indulging excessively;

    "he drank heavily"

  • 7. into a solid condition;

    "concrete that sets hard within a few hours"

  • 8. very near or close in space or time;

    "it stands hard by the railroad tracks"

    "they were hard on his heels"

    "a strike followed hard upon the plant's opening"

  • 9. with pain or distress or bitterness;

    "he took the rejection very hard"

  • 10. to the full extent possible; all the way;

    "hard alee"

    "the ship went hard astern"

    "swung the wheel hard left"

同义词辨析

difficult, hard

这两个形容词均有"困难"之意。

  • difficult比hard较为正式,侧重需要特别的能力、智力、判断力、技巧或勇气才能克服障碍。也可指深奥或抽象的难题。
  • hard: 含义广,通俗用词,与easy相对,泛指任何难理解,不好处理或不易做的事。

firm, hard, solid

这些形容词都可表示"坚定的,结实的"之意。

  • firm: 侧重指质地坚硬、不易切割或有弹性,一旦变形会很快恢复原形。
  • hard: 侧重有抗拒压力或拉力的性质,但不一定有弹性。
  • solid: 着重质地紧密、坚实和无间隙,含有在外部压力下仍可保持原有形状的意味。

同义词

adj.严厉的;严格的

unyieldingsternstrictinflexible

adj.严酷的;讨厌的

unpleasantcallousharshsevereugly

adj.硬的,坚固的

strongfirmstonysolidrigid

反义词

adj.艰难的;硬的;严厉的

gentlesoftmildeasylightsimplelimptender

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