hardened是什么意思？

hardened

英['hɑ:dnd] 美['hɑdənd]

• adj. 变硬的，坚毅的；
• v. （使）变硬( harden的过去式和过去分词 )，（使）坚固，（使）硬化，（使）变得坚强；

例句

• I hardened my heart against him. 我硬起心肠来对待他。
• The positions of the two sides hardened. 双方的立场变得更强硬了。
• His mind hardened as he became used to difficulty. 他坚强起来了, 因为他已习惯于困难。
• The snow hardened until ice was formed. 雪成冰后变硬了。
• Only by taking part in practice can the young people be toughened and hardened into steel. 年轻人只有通过实际锻炼才能百炼成钢.
• I hardened my heart and took the smoke - rocket from under my ulster. 我硬下心肠,从我的长外套里取出烟火筒.
• Her mind hardened at the thought of the difficulties awaiting her. 当她想到面临着许多困难时,她的意志更坚定了.
• She was hardened by the rigours of the Siberian steppes. 西伯利亚大草原的艰苦环境使她变得坚强起来。
• All of a sudden my heart hardened against her. 突然间我对她硬起了心肠。
• The endocarp is hardened before the final swell. 在果实最后膨大期以前内果皮变硬.

英语四级真题

Store employees looked at me like I'm some kind of hardened criminal.
出自-2010年12月听力原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• ADJ-GRADED
  硬心肠的;冷酷无情的;麻木不仁的
  If you describe someone as hardened, you mean that they have had so much experience of something bad or unpleasant that they are no longer affected by it in the way that other people would be.
  例句
  ...hardened criminals. 冷酷无情的罪犯 ...hardened politicians. 麻木不仁的政客

英英词典释义

• Adjective
  1. used of persons; emotionally hardened;
  "faced a case-hardened judge"
  2. made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment;
  "a sword of tempered steel""tempered glass"
  3. made tough by habitual exposure;
  "hardened fishermen""a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured"- Robert Lynd"our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"- V.S.Pritchett
  4. converted to solid form (as concrete)