hard

Pronúncia: hɑːd
    adjective
  1. [firm] dur, sòlid, fort.
  2. [snow, mud] endurit.
  3. [muscle] ferm, massís.
  4. to get hard endurir-se.
  5. hard cash diners comptants, diner viu.
  6. hard water aigua dura.
  7. hard drink beguda alcohòlica.
  8. hard soil terra gorda.

  9. [harsh, tough, task] ardu, dur, penós.
  10. [blow] fort, dur.
  11. [winter] cru, aspre.
  12. [climate, weather] aspre, dolent.
  13. [rule] dur, sever.
  14. [decision] injust.
  15. irrevocable.
  16. [fact] innegable.
  17. [word] insultant.
  18. hard luck mala sort.
  19. hard times temps dolents.
  20. hard tissues Medicine teixits escleròtics.
  21. hard look mirada dura, mirada fixa.

  22. [person] dur, sever, inflexible.
  23. to be as hard as nails estar en bona forma.
  24. (idem) ésser inflexible.
  25. he’s hard on his wife és molt dur amb la seva dona.
  26. you are a hard man ets cruel.
  27. to be hard on one’s clothes destrossar la roba.

  28. [difficult] difícil.
  29. he’s very hard to please és molt difícil d’acontentar.
  30. (idem) és molt exigent.
  31. to be hard of hearing ser dur d’orella, ser una mica sord.
  32. this engine is hard to start aquesta màquina costa d’engegar.
    33. adverb
  33. [strenuously] fort, molt.
  34. pull hard! estira fort!
  35. it was raining hard plovia molt.
  36. to be hard pressed to do something anar just de temps per a fer una cosa.
  37. it will go hard with him serà molt difícil per a ell.
  38. to work hard treballar molt.
  39. to beg hard for something suplicar amb insistència una cosa.
  40. to think hard pensar molt, meditar profundament.
  41. to look hard mirar fixament.
  42. hold hard! atura’t!
  43. to try one’s hardest to do something esforçar-se al màxim per a fer una cosa.

  44. to be hard up estar escurat.
  45. to be hard up for something tenir molta necessitat d’una cosa.
  46. to be hard put to it trobar-se en un tràngol.
  47. she was hard done by him ell la va tractar molt malament.
  48. he took it pretty hard s’ho va agafar molt malament.

  49. hard by molt a prop (de).