"tough" Là Gì? Nghĩa Của Từ Tough Trong Tiếng Việt. Từ điển Anh-Việt

tough

Từ điển Collocation

tough adj.

1 difficult/unpleasant

VERBS be, seem | get

ADV. extremely, particularly, really, very | a bit, fairly, a little, pretty, quite Things were pretty tough at first.

PREP. on It's very tough on the wives when the husbands go off like that.

2 strict/firm

VERBS be | become, get

ADV. extremely, particularly, very | fairly, pretty, quite | enough Has the government been tough enough on polluters?

PREP. on The government has promised to get tough on crime. | with You have to be tough with these young thugs.

3 strong

VERBS be, feel, look, seem | become, get, grow | act, talk (both informal) Then this guy started acting tough.

ADV. incredibly, really, remarkably, very | pretty, quite, reasonably | enough Are you sure you're physically tough enough for this job? | mentally, physically

Từ điển WordNet

    n.

  • someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing; street fighter
  • an aggressive and violent young criminal; hood, hoodlum, goon, punk, thug, toughie, strong-armer
  • a cruel and brutal fellow; bully, hooligan, ruffian, roughneck, rowdy, yob, yobo, yobbo

    adj.

  • not given to gentleness or sentimentality

    a tough character

  • very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution; rugged

    a rugged competitive examination

    the rugged conditions of frontier life

    the competition was tough

    it's a tough life

    it was a tough job

  • physically toughened; toughened

    the tough bottoms of his feet

  • substantially made or constructed; sturdy

    sturdy steel shelves

    sturdy canvas

    a tough all-weather fabric

    some plastics are as tough as metal

  • violent and lawless; ruffianly

    the more ruffianly element

    tough street gangs

  • feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad'); bad

    my throat feels bad

    she felt bad all over

    he was feeling tough after a restless night

  • resistant to cutting or chewing
  • unfortunate or hard to bear; hard

    had hard luck

    a tough break

  • making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; baffling, knotty, problematic, problematical

    a baffling problem

    I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast

    a problematic situation at home

English Idioms Dictionary

difficult.

English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

toughs|tougher|toughestsyn.: complicated difficult durable firm hard hardy obscure strong sturdy unclear vagueant.: tender

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