| 词汇 | hard-won |
| 释义 | hard-won adjective uk /ˌhɑːdˈwʌn/ us /ˌhɑːrdˈwɑːn/ If something is hard-won, it was only achieved after a lot of effort: 辛苦得到的，来之不易的 a hard-won battle艰难获胜的战役 Complicated and difficult to do advanced ambitious ambitiously another arduous formidable formidably get blood out of/from a stoneidiom grail gruelling onerously overdemanding painstaking picnic problematic trickily tricky tuff ultra-sensitive unintuitive Examples of hard-wonhard-won Technical knowledge of the treatises, the instruments, the mathematics are all necessary for sure, and hard-won aspects of the subject. Economic growth decelerated, macro-economic imbalances re-emerged, and the country's hard-won fiscal prudence was jeopardised by election-related overspending, especially in 1992. The hard-won gains in equity of health care for frail aged people are at risk. Trading at such a distance allowed a merchant class to intervene and siphon off the hard-won efforts of labour. This is especially true if generality requires us to disregard much of our hard-won understanding of the details of psychological processing. The blazing conclusion has been hard-won in this accomplished and vivid performance. We must begin to move towards something new even if at first sight we seem to be throwing away the hard-won areas of precision and security. Some people might not mind losing a bit of freedom, but they do not like losing hard-won surpluses. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not want to throw that hard-won victory overboard. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We believe that the nation would be insane to pursue policies that simply threw away those hard-won gains. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We need to act to ensure that the hard-won improvements in health and safety continue to reduce the rates of work-related injury and death. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our policies are designed to give farming a sustainable future, which will be helped by the hard-won reforms to the common agricultural policy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do hold them responsible for disrupting our hard-won trade union settlement with their half-baked reforms. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We now desire to use them to defend our people from profiteering and from inflation, and so to safeguard their hard-won savings. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are reversing many of the important elements of our hard-won trade union settlement. 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-won 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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