硬件 | yìng jiàn | hardware | |
过硬 | guò yìng | to have perfect mastery of sth; to be up to the mark | |
强硬 | qiáng yìng | tough; unyielding; hard-line | |
硬是 | yìng shì | just; simply; stubbornly; really | |
坚硬 | jiān yìng | hard; solid |
1 | Yes, but not too stiff, right? | |
2 | The water here is so hard that all the pans fur up after a single use. | |
3 | These are stimuli that people are conscious of - you can feel the hard chair, the hot coffee - but were unaware that it influenced them. | |
4 | Our stepmother gives us dry hard crusts for dinner and supper; she often knocks us about, and threatens to kick us out of the house. | |
5 | Your bread is hard. |