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A hard-bitten person is not easily shocked or upset, because they have already had a lot of rough experience. Writers like the word for old detectives, farmers, and war reporters: people who have seen plenty and do not jump. The feeling is tough and a little dry, not automatically cruel — though it can sit close to “hard” in the sense. You will meet it more in stories and news profiles than in young people’s everyday talk.
飽經風霜的、歷練到不易動搖的
組成hard + bitten (bitten is the past form of bite). The pieces are clear; the whole word means toughened by experience.
同家族的字
- bitebitten is the past form of bite
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
hard-bittenadj
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Callous and toughened by experience.
- It was written of Henry George Ward, M.P. for Sheffield from 1837 to 1849, that "he was also much occupied with railway enterprise in the days of early speculation." This suggests a hard-bitten man of commerce, but Ward had served in the Diplomatic Service and he was Minister Plenipotentiary to Mexico before retiring in 1827 at the age of 30.
- Its author, we must remember, was above all a man of action, an elected official, a captain, a traveler, and a pragmatic intellectual, a successful combatant against warrior and disease alike, hardbitten and intimate with both privilege and disgrace, a man who suffered with and outlived most of the greatest men of his age.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。