| 词汇 | hard-earned |
| 释义 | hard-earned adjective uk /ˌhɑːdˈɜːnd/ us /ˌhɑːrdˈɝːnd/ If something is hard-earned, you deserve it because you have worked hard for it: 辛苦挣得的，来之不易的 People feel they are being cheated out of their hard-earned cash.人们觉得自己的血汗钱被骗了。 Deserving and deserved birthright come comeuppance deserts deserve deserved deserving get your comeuppance get your just desertsidiom go had it coming (to you)idiom just merit serve undeservedly undeserving undeservingly unmerited well deserved worthy hard-earned | Business Englishhard-earned adjective[ before noun ] ukus earned by working very hard: hard-earned cash/money/dollarsWorking families are paying more and more of their hard-earned dollars for their health care. The company's attempts to drive down costs have hurt its hard-earned reputation for quality. Examples of hard-earnedhard-earned With seniority, some women command the hard-earned position of relative authority within the family and would be less than eager to relinquish it. The per capita expenditure of the household may recover after a year or so, but survival is often achieved through dissaving and sales of hard-earned assets. This article challenges this view, stating that the current tendency towards ' agelessness ' is itself a form of ageism, depriving the old of one of their most hard-earned resources : their age. Why should air traffic control compete for hard-earned public cash with police officers, firefighters, the national health service and schools? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They found that galloping inflation was eroding their often hard-earned and very precious nest eggs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This means that hard-earned taxpayers' money has, for years, been trickling away into mysterious channels. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English It will enshrine in law their right to keep a proportion of their hard-earned income and savings. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We think that they have the right to know how much of their hard-earned income is being spent on petrol. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If legislation forces us to hand over hard-earned cash to the incompetent, there is little incentive for anyone to save. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That would make us feel more confident that our constituents' hard-earned cash was being well spent. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The victims have been taken from us at a moment of joyous homecoming after a hard-earned holiday. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These companies realised much of their hard-earned and preciously conserved reserves to tide them over the winter period until better days came. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We should not be wasting hard-earned taxpayers' money on a fourth satellite system that offers no advantage over the others. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I also hear some anxieties that sometimes there is over much pressure to achieve measurable outcomes which might damage the hard-earned relationships of trust. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I consider that the local education authority is using its hard-earned and hard-fought for financial resources in an extremely reprehensible way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of hard-earned These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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