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词汇 hard-boiled
释义 hard-boiled
adjective
uk /ˌhɑːdˈbɔɪld/ us /ˌhɑːrdˈbɔɪld/

hard-boiledadjective (EGG)


A hard-boiled egg has been heated in its shell in boiling water until both the white and yellow parts are solid.(蛋)煮得老的
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Cookery terms
amandine
au gratin
cuisine
curdle
Dutched
extra-rare
farci
mirepoix
mise en place
niçoise
Normande
nose to tailidiom
tbsp.
temper
tsp.
uncooked
unstrained
à la grecque
à la king
à la mode

hard-boiledadjective (STORY)


used to describe a style of story, usually about crime and detectives(= people who solve crimes), that includes unpleasant or violent details:
This is a series that comes from the tradition of hard-boiled detective novels.
used to describe a typical character from this style of story, who is strong and determined and shows little emotion: (人)冷酷的,不动感情的
The film stars Kathleen Turner as the hard-boiled detective of Sarah Paretsky's novel.根据萨拉‧帕雷特斯基的小说改编的电影中,凯瑟琳‧特纳担纲主角,扮演冷酷的警探。
He's hard-boiled, he smokes and drinks, he's too wrapped up in his work to have satisfying relationships.
Each tale is told in a different style: ghost story, hard-boiled mystery, science fiction.
It's the classic hard-boiled crime plot.
His prose and characters borrow a bit from Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled L. A. noirs.
Frank Miller's stark, hard-boiled graphic novels
hard-boiled private detectives like Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe
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abridgment
annual
anthology
audiobook
backlist
crammer
crime
digest
dime novel
e-reader
easy read
must-read
novel
novelette
novelistic
novelistically
vade mecum
workbook
ya
young adult

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hard-boiled | American Dictionary


hard-boiled
adjective
us/ˈhɑrdˈbɔɪld/

hard-boiledadjective (EGG)


(of an egg) boiled in its shell until both the white and yellow parts are solid

hard-boiledadjective (PERSON)


appearing not to have emotions or weaknesses:
a hard-boiled detective

Examples of hard-boiled


hard-boiled
That did not work very well either, so she started hawking hard-boiled eggs with pepper (a popular snack).
We are "hard-boiled," we know the strength, we know the game—the ducking and diving just before an election.
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I continue to eat hard-boiled, scrambled or lightly fried eggs.
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He said that his experience was that the smaller stations were usually owned by hard-boiled businessmen, unashamedly out for all the profit they could get.
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Some people take a hard-boiled view on the matter and rebuke those who take a soft view on the grounds of sentimentality.
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You cannot turn it on or off, and in this mild weather you are rather inclined to arrive like a hard-boiled egg.
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He said that the local stations are usually owned by hard-boiled business men who are unashamedly out for all the profit they can get.
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But those hard-boiled eggs are chemically treated and sometimes the chemical treatment goes wrong and the hard-boiled eggs have to be discarded.
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Even if we were hard-faced, hard-boiled men, we would still have to care to get the votes.
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It is perfectly possible to make an edible sauce with hard-boiled egg yolks but it would not be mayonnaise, and that should be made clear.
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I would hazard the guess that millions of people will be infinitely depressed at the prospect of hard-boiled eggs and no fresh mayonnaise.
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There will also be some hard-boiled customers leering down from the benches.
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Some of those engaged in research using animals become hard-boiled in their attitude towards those animals.
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It is always reckoned that journalists are hard-boiled specimens of humanity.
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We can only look at this transaction from the point of view of hard-boiled realism and not sentiment.
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