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- hard; stiff; solid
- (fig.) strong; firm
- resolutely; uncompromisingly
- laboriously; with great difficulty
- good (quality); able (person)
- (of food) filling; substantial
- to harden
- (medicine) sclerosis
- (fig.) to become inflexible in one's opinions; to ossify
- (Tw) (coll.) to defend an untenable position with ridiculous arguments (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [ngē-áu])
- Taiwan pr. [ying4ao1]
Trad. 硬筆
- generic term for hard writing instruments such as quill pens, fountain pens, ball pens and pencils, as opposed to writing brushes
Trad. 硬臥
- hard sleeper (a type of sleeper train ticket class with a harder bunk)
- firmly set on doing sth
- to insist on doing
- determined in one's course of action
- to pressure
- to press
- to force
- to compel
- to push
- to coerce
- to urge
- to impel
- to bully into
- to be compelled
Trad. 硬著陸
- (aviation) hard landing
- (economics) hard landing
Trad. 硬骨頭
- resolute individual
- a hard nut to crack
- tough mission
- difficult task
Trad. 硬骨魚
- bony fishes
- Osteichthyes (taxonomic class including most fish)
- (of a bird) to fledge
- (fig.) (of a person) to outgrow the need to be submissive to one's parents, mentor etc; to break away from the people who have supported one up to now
Trad. 軟硬兼施
- use both carrot and stick
- use gentle methods and force
- an iron hand in a velvet glove
Trad. 軟磨硬泡
- to coax and pester (idiom)
- to wheedle
- to cajole
Trad. 嘴硬心軟
- see 刀子嘴，豆腐心[dao1 zi5 zui3 , dou4 fu5 xin1]
Trad. 粥樣硬化
- atherosclerosis
- hardening of the arteries
Trad. 機械硬盤
- (computing) hard disk drive (HDD)
Trad. 移動硬盤
- portable hard drive; external hard drive
Trad. 死記硬背
- to learn by rote
- to mechanically memorize
Trad. 硬著頭皮
- to brace oneself to do sth
- to put a bold face on it
- to summon up courage
- to force oneself to
Trad. 動脈硬化
- hardening of the arteries
- arteriosclerosis
Trad. 固態硬盤
- (computing) solid-state drive (SSD)
Trad. 沒苦硬吃
- (neologism c. 2024) to stubbornly endure hardships that need not be endured; to go out of one's way to make things difficult for oneself
- to drag sb along against his will
- to draw a forced analogy
Trad. 硬式磁碟機
- hard disk
- hard drive
Trad. 白頭硬尾鴨
- (bird species of China) white-headed duck (Oxyura leucocephala)
- to force oneself upon sb (idiom)
- to rape
Trad. 吃硬不吃軟
- susceptible to force but not persuasion
Trad. 吃軟不吃硬
- lit. eats soft food, but refuses hard food (idiom)
- amenable to coaxing but not coercion
Trad. 多發性硬化症
- multiple sclerosis
Trad. 動脈粥樣硬化
- atherosclerosis
Trad. 血管粥樣硬化
- atherosclerosis
- hardening of the arteries