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To harden means to become hard, or to make something hard - clay hardens as it dries, and metal can be hardened by heating and cooling it. People also use it for feelings and positions: someone's heart can harden (they become less caring after being hurt), and a person or group can harden their position (become stricter, less willing to compromise).
使變硬;使變強硬
組成hard + -en (a verb ending meaning 'to make/become', also seen in soften, widen, weaken)
同家族的字
- hardharden simply means 'to make/become hard'
原始詞典資料13 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。
Hardenname
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A surname.
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A place name:
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A place name:
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A place name:
hardenverb詞源 1/ˈhɑɹdn̩/
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To become hard.
- The Chief Medical Officer of London Transport believes that public opinion against smoking will harden to the point of a total bar on the Underground, as in other countries.
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To make something hard or harder.
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To strengthen.
- In view of the system's relatively low cost, the preferred alternative could be for the military user to avail himself of multiple base stations rather than seeking to harden the base station hardware for defense applications.
- Ramos had locked Salah’s right arm and turned him, judo-style, as they lost balance going for the same ball. Television replays hardened the suspicion it was a calculated move on Ramos’s part and, when Salah landed with a hell of a thud, the damage was considerable.
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computingengineeringmathematicsTo modify (a website or other system) to make it resistant to malicious attacks.
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To become or make (a person or thing) resistant or less sensitive.
- (obs.)
- When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.
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informalTo get an erection.
- He hardened as he imagined himself running his hands over her small breasts
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human-scienceslinguisticsphonologyTo become or make (a consonant) more fortis; to (cause to) undergo fortition.
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To unpalatalize or velarize.
- Of course one needs to keep in mind the fact that *tʹ and *dʹ are hardened before *e and *i in Ukrainian and Rusyn[…]
- Belarussian preserved soft labials before vowels, hardened rʹ to r, and affricated tʹ and dʹ[…]
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
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。