hard-bitten
短语a. 顽强的, 不易对付的, 难以驾御的, 顽固的
词形变化
more hard-bitten
比较级
most hard-bitten
最高级
别名
hardbitten
释义与例句
adj.
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1.
Callous and toughened by experience.
Its author, we must remember, was above all a man of action, an elected official, a captain, a traveler, and a pragmatic intellectual, a successful combatant against warrior and disease alike, hardbitten and intimate with both privilege and disgrace, a man who suffered with and outlived most of the greatest men of his age.