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词汇 toughened
释义 toughened
past simple and past participle oftoughen
toughen
verb
uk /ˈtʌf.ən/ us /ˈtʌf.ən/

toughenverb (MAKE STRONG)


[ T ]
to make something or someone tough, strong, or stronger: 使坚韧;使变结实;加强
The UN announced its intentions to toughen sanctions still further.联合国宣布了要进一步加强制裁的意图。
The government wants to toughen (up) the existing drug laws/controls.政府想要加强现有的有关毒品的法律/对毒品的控制措施。
His time in the army certainly toughened him up.军旅生涯确实使他变得更加坚强。
Car windows are usually made from toughened glass.汽车车窗通常是由钢化玻璃制成的。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Becoming and making stronger
aggrandize
boil up
bolster
cement
character-building
deepen
harden
hardening
invigoration
jell
power (something) up
restoke
restrengthen
self-reinforcing
sharpen
solidification
solidify
soup
undulled
wired

toughenverb (GET DIFFICULT)


[ I ]
to become difficult to deal with: 变困难
Amid toughening competition in the market, many firms are going out of business.由于市场竞争愈趋激烈,许多公司只好歇业。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Complicated and difficult to do
advanced
ambitious
ambitiously
another
arduous
formidable
formidably
get blood out of/from a stoneidiom
grail
gruelling
onerous
onerously
overdemanding
painstaking
picnic
toughen
trickily
tricky
tuff
ultra-sensitive

Examples of toughened


toughened

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


There were still major restrictions on political activities, penalties for illegal strikes were toughened, and government controls were increased.
Toughened laminated glass panels are directly attached to the wooden bars.
Rooflight: flat double glazing, toughened glass over translucent laminated glass, to disguise bird droppings and other dirty deposits.
For each rhizotron, stacks of concrete blocks at each edge held in place a 1-m-square, 6-mm-thick pane of toughened glass against a carefully hand-smoothed, vertical soil face.
I focus here on the top-down part of that story - how the state government toughened up work policies so as to make a work requirement real throughout the state.
New leaves were defined as those that had emerged from bud and were either still expanding, or if full-size, had not yet completely toughened.
The glass units are heat-soak tested toughened glass measuring 6mm / 16mm gap / 10mm inner pane, with 'k' coating on the inner face of the 6mm glass.
It should no longer tolerate excuses for evasion of its sanctions and those sanctions must be toughened and extended.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
The latest type of toughened glass does not completely obscure the driver's view of the road ahead when shattered.
From the
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A number of complaints have been received about cups and other articles made from toughened glassware which have disintegrated spontaneously.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
We believe that one response to that is the adoption of toughened drinking glasses in pubs and clubs.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
I have insufficient evidence to justify making either toughened or laminated safety glass compulsory to the exclusion of the other.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
I believe that until the relative benefits of zone toughened and laminated windscreens are more clearly established motorists should remain free to choose either type.
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More and more countries are turning towards laminated as opposed to toughened glass.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
That is without any compulsion from the police at all—merely a requirement that laminated glass should be fitted instead of toughened glass.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
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