喜樂美語

One way to hold this word: something that used to give way, and now does not. Heat and cooling do it to steel; years of weather do it to mud; years of the same hard job do it to a person. The word never describes the moment of pressing — it describes what is left afterwards, standing there refusing to bend. That is why the same word can sit in front of steel, in front of a police officer, and in front of an air base without changing its shape.

hardened 的核心畫面可以想成：本來會讓步的東西，現在不讓了。鋼是被加熱又急冷弄硬的；泥土是被太陽和風曬硬的；人是被同一份辛苦工作磨硬的。這個字從來不是在講「被壓的那一刻」，而是在講「壓完之後剩下的樣子」——就那樣立在那裡，不彎。所以同一個字可以接在 steel 前面、接在 police officer 前面、也可以接在 air base 前面，畫面都不用換。

登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

同家族的字

比較級 more hardened最高級 most hardened

意思相近

toughenedseasonedconfirmedsetbattle-worninveteratesolidifiedentrenchedreinforcedinureddyed-in-the-woolfortified+8

用法接近

stiffexperiencedstubbornrigidveterancommittedfirmweatheredfixedarmoureddesensitisedshielded+3

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

hardenedadj/ˈhɑːdn̩d/

  • 1

    Made physically hard.

    • hardened steel
  • 2

    Having been accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant through exposure or experience; inured.

    • hardened police officers
  • 3

    Unfeeling; pitiless; callous.

    • The bloody scene could reduce even the most hardened soldier to tears.
    • In the past, Lutao was considered somewhat mysterious, because of the national penitentiary which housed the most hardened criminals, and the restrictions on travel to the island, which have since been loosened.
  • 4

    Firmly established in a behavior seen as bad; unlikely to change one's ways; inveterate.

    • hardened criminals
  • 5

    computingengineeringgovernmentHaving extra defences against attack; highly fortified.

    • a hardened air base
    • a hardened server

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。