Able to take criticism, insults, or unkindness without being hurt by them — as if your skin were too thick for the words to get through. It is normally a compliment, or at least neutral: it praises toughness.

Able to take criticism, insults, or unkindness without being hurt by them能夠承受批評、侮辱或不友善的對待，而不會受傷as if your skin were too thick for the words to get through，——好像你的皮膚太厚了，這些話穿不透。It is normally a compliment, or at least neutral這通常是稱讚，至少也是中性的：it praises toughness稱讚一個人夠堅韌。

You hear it most about jobs where people get attacked a lot: You have to be thick-skinned to be a politician. A journalist needs to be pretty thick-skinned. It is also used as advice to someone who is taking things too hard: Try to be a bit more thick-skinned about the comments online.

You hear it most about jobs where people get attacked a lot你最常在那些容易被攻擊的工作上聽到這個字：You have to be thick-skinned to be a politician當政治人物就得thick-skinned才行。A journalist needs to be pretty thick-skinned當記者也需要相當thick-skinned。It is also used as advice to someone who is taking things too hard它也可以用來勸一個把事情看得太重的人：Try to be a bit more thick-skinned about the comments online對網路上的留言，試著thick-skinned一點吧。

But watch the edge on it — because the picture is of a person who does not feel things, it can occasionally tip into a criticism meaning insensitive, someone who does not notice they are hurting others. Context tells you which.

But watch the edge on it不過要小心它有個界線because the picture is of a person who does not feel things，——因為這個畫面講的是一個沒什麼感覺的人it can occasionally tip into a criticism meaning insensitive, someone who does not notice they are hurting others，有時候會滑向一種批評，意思是遲鈍、沒發現自己傷了別人。Context tells you which前後文會告訴你是哪一種。

Its opposite, thin-skinned, is always negative: it means easily offended, quick to take things personally. Register is ordinary everyday English; it is fine in writing and at work, and it is a set idiom, so it is always hyphenated and always about emotions — never about actual skin.

Its opposite, thin-skinned, is always negative它的反義詞thin-skinned則永遠是負面的：it means easily offended, quick to take things personally意思是很容易被冒犯、動不動就往心裡去。Register is ordinary everyday English語域上是很普通的日常英文；it is fine in writing and at work寫作和工作場合用都沒問題and it is a set idiom, so it is always hyphenated and always about emotions — never about actual skin，而且這是固定的成語，永遠會加連字號，講的永遠是情緒——跟真正的皮膚無關。