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 hardened ['hɑ:dənd]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 有经验的

  1. Life in the camp had hardened him considerably.
    军营生活使他变得坚强多了。
  2. His face hardened at the word.
    他听到这话,脸沉了下来。


hardened
[ adj ]
  1. made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment

  2. <adj.all>
    a sword of tempered steel
    tempered glass
  3. protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)

  4. <adj.all>
    hardened missile silos
  5. used of persons; emotionally hardened

  6. <adj.all>
    faced a case-hardened judge
  7. made tough by habitual exposure

  8. <adj.all>
    hardened fishermen
    a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured
    our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men
  9. converted to solid form (as concrete)

  10. <adj.all>


Hardened \Hard"ened\ (-'nd), a.
1. Made hard, or harder, or compact; made unfeeling or
callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or
vice.

2. Rendered resistant to the effects of nearby explosions;
as, a hardened missile silo; hardened warhead electronics.
[PJC]

3. Experienced and inured to hardship; as, hardened combat
troops.
[PJC]

4. Strongly habituated to a certain type of behavior, and
unlikely to change; as, a hardened criminal. Usually used
only of behavior perceived negatively.
[PJC]

Syn: Impenetrable; hard; obdurate; callous; unfeeling;
unsusceptible; insensible. See {Obdurate}.


Harden \Hard"en\ (h[aum]rd"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hardened}
(-'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Hardening} (-'n*[i^]ng).] [OE.
hardnen, hardenen.]
1. To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to
indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.

2. To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with
constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to
confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable.
``Harden not your heart.'' --Ps. xcv. 8.

I would harden myself in sorrow. --Job vi. 10.

  1. Pinochet's blunt refusal Thursday night has hardened public opposition to his rule.
  2. "The majority of ours are not hardened criminals," Frederick says. "They don't need to be exposed to that type of people." Some former inmates even come back to say hello occasionally.
  3. For the most hardened drug traffickers, Bush renewed his endorsement of the death penalty.
  4. The hunger strike seems to have hardened Mitterrand's stand.
  5. Nor is the radar hardened against nuclear attack.
  6. The fossils, packed in plaster and caked with rock and hardened mud, then had to be unloaded, weighed and set up for display.
  7. He had employed hardened restructuring experts with experience in cases such as Citibank and American Airlines.
  8. The nuclear weapons system, which would cost $45 billion over its lifetime, consists of a single-warhead missile that would avoid being targeted by enemy missiles by being carried on hardened trucks that would travel across government reservations.
  9. If the sear is not properly hardened, it may wear prematurely and the consumer may not be able to cock the airgun, the commission said.
  10. But hardened by three years in jail and twice that long underground, he has risen to become a leader of Egypt's hounded Islamic organization Al Jihad, or the Struggle.
  11. The delegation "discovered" that the Krasnoyarsk radar is not operational, that it is not hardened against nuclear attack, and concluded that it could not be an ABM radar.
  12. Shell, scheduled to report third-quarter numbers on Thursday, hardened 2 to 530p. Calor shares, aggressively bought in recent sessions by one of the large UK integrated houses, retreated to close 7 off at 233p.
  13. He is preyed upon by the hardened cons, especially Jingles, who threatens to make Rainwood the gang's "pet." Veteran convict Virgil Cane advises Jimmy that the only way to avoid degradation and probable death is to kill Jingles.
  14. He clutched a single bread roll, hardened with age, and a crumpled snapshot of his two daughters in Baghdad.
  15. Realizing that they had underestimated the depth of feeling among some workers, the unions have hardened their positions.
  16. A hardened lava river eight-tenths of a mile wide and about 200 miles long was mapped by Magellan as well.
  17. But Bedford said, "We are really finding in the home market things quieter than we would like." Made of rabbit fur hardened with shellac, bowlers still are handcrafted through 47 steps over the course of eight weeks, Bedford said.
  18. These tensions have further hardened the tone of Russian political life. To cap this, the role of a so-far shadowy body, the Security Council, is now increasing.
  19. Nevertheless, sources close to the Saudis said the kingdom continues to exceed its OPEC production quota of 4.3 million barrels a day in line with its recently hardened position against other overproducers in OPEC.
  20. Bheki and a young schoolmate, both hardened by the oppressions of apartheid, are driven relentlessly by the iron indignation of the victimized.
  21. That kind of attitude may be inviting trouble, for Mr. Robertson should by now have proved even to hardened skeptics that he shouldn't be underrated.
  22. Powell said in Washington that the Iraqis, hardened by a recent eight-year war with Iran, "are not invincible.
  23. They are highly effective against troops in the open, but not against hardened targets like fortifications.
  24. Shevardnadze's tough talk came a day after President Mikhail S. Gorbachev hardened his stand in the Persian Gulf crisis, calling for military pressure to force Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait.
  25. Eventually the bucket will be full of hardened cement. Russell Clayton, a flash specialist with Intel of the US, the world's leading manufacturer of the chip, says that the re-programming problem has been exaggerated.
  26. Kuwaiti opposition demands hardened in talks on a postwar government.
  27. Among international shares benefiting from the dollar's rise, Glaxo Holdings hardened 31 pence to #10.09, Beecham Group was 14 pence better at 476, and Reuters rose 8 to 553.
  28. Critics complain the softer style has scant effect on hardened criminals.
  29. Bush said he was seeking "room for flexibility" on the issue immediately after the House vote, but under pressure from anti-abortion supporters he hardened his stand and vetoed the bill on Saturday.
  30. Iraqis hardened by eight years of war with Iran seem almost casual about the formidable buildup of U.S. firepower across the border in Saudi Arabia.
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