1·West Indian locust tree having pinnate leaves and panicles of large white or purplish flowers; yields very hard tough wood.
西印度群岛的一种角豆树，有羽状的叶片和开白色或紫色大花的圆锥花序，木材。
2·She's hard-boiled, tough, and funny.
她冷峻、坚韧而风趣。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·Most Roman pottery is light and smooth to touch and very tough, although, like all pottery, it shatters if dropped on a hard surface.
大多数罗马陶器轻巧而光滑，摸起来很硬，但像所有的陶器一样，如果掉在坚硬的物质上就会碎裂。
4·And then, as my caveat says, there are those instances of overvaluation that are hard to recognize in the same way that overvaluation in the mortgage-backed asset market was tough to see.
然后，作为我的告诫说，也有高估的情况下是很难承认以同样的方式，在抵押担保资产的市场价值高估是很难看到的。
5·Tough rules on mortgages have made it hard to reduce unpayable household debt.
针对抵押贷款的严厉规定，又使沉重得难以支付的家庭债务更难削减。
6·But if it was hard work being married to Ava Gardner, it was just as tough being married to Frank Sinatra.
但是，如果说与艾娃·加德纳结婚是一份苦差，那么与弗兰克·辛纳屈生活一样艰难。
7·Sometimes cops give you a hard time, and it can be tough to deal with them when you actually feel offended by their requests.
有时候，警察让你不好过，当你觉得你因他们的要求受到冒犯那么跟他们打交道很困难。
8·Both situations can be tough to handle but to compound them at the exact same time that was a real hard.
这两种情况每一个都是很难处理的，当它们同时出现的时候，简直太难了！
9·He must have weighed a good 130 pounds, and he was strong enough to snap with one hand a branch so tough that a man would be hard put to break it with two.
它体重应该有130磅，一只手就可以轻而易举地把一个树枝折断，而这样的树枝对于人来说，用两只手也很难弄断。
10·"It's a tough business; it's hard for everyone, male or female, but we do have our own problems," Lou said.
“这是一个非常残酷的行业；对每一个人来说都很艰难，无论是男性还是女性，但是我们(女性)确实有只属于我们的问题和麻烦。”她说。