| 词汇 | hard-boiled |
| 释义 | Idiom hard-boiled informal a hard-boiled person behaves as if they have no emotions.Bogart plays the hard-boiled detective that women find irresistibly attractive. (always before noun)hard-boiled adjective callous, cynical, emotionally uninvolved, tough; describing the characteristics of macho tough guys in 'hard-boiled' pulp fiction. Figurative usage of the solid properties of hard-boiled eggs, or clothing vigorously boiled in starch; applied by Mark Twain (1835–1910) to refer to rigid rules of grammar (1886); in the early 1900s it applied to hard or stiff clothing; by 1918 it was being used to describe a person who stuck rigidly to the rules; from which the current sense evolved US, 1904hard-boiled1. Literally, having reached a solid state through boiling, as of eggs. Mom is making hard-boiled eggs for breakfast. 2. Tough and dispassionate; hardened by experience. My brother, the hard-boiled police officer, becomes a gushing fool if you ask him about his baby daughter. hardboiled mod. tough; heartless. Do you have to act so hardboiled? |
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