hard-bitten

1. ADJ-GRADED （常指因经历过很多不幸而）冷酷无情的，铁石心肠的
   If you describe someone as hard-bitten, you are critical of them because they do not show much emotion or have much sympathy for other people, usually because they have experienced many unpleasant things.
   1. ...a cynical hard-bitten journalist.
      愤世嫉俗、冷酷无情的记者

1. Even the once hard-bitten British are falling for Hello Kitty and Osaka-based musician and cultural commentator Nick Currie thinks he knows why.
   即便是一度强硬的英国国民也为HelloKitty倾心，驻大阪音乐家、文化评论员尼克•克里（NickCurrie）分析其中原因。
2. When you had fallen to the bottom of your life, every people around you would tell you: Be hard-bitten and be happy!
   在你跌入人生谷底的时候，你身旁所有的人都告诉你：要坚强，而且要快乐。
3. To be hard-bitten would be necessary, but be happy?
   坚强是绝对需要的，但是快乐？
4. They were given revolutionary and hard-bitten government but also order and security.
   他们被迫接受一个革命的、严厉的政体，但同时也得到了秩序和安全。
5. This particular murder case was so horrific that it shocked even the most hard-bitten of New York police officers.
   这件特殊谋杀案真是太可怕了，就连纽约最老辣的警官都为之震惊。
6. That these hard-bitten guerrilla leaders actually believed in such a Christian approach to the problem of war and revolution of course, seemed to me preposterous.
   这些久经征战的游击队领导人物，在革命和战争的问题上难道会抱有这种基督徒式的态度？这在我看来当然是荒谬的。
7. And when I see a hard-bitten lawyer happily planning an outing for blind children;
   当我看到身经百战的律师正在高兴地为盲童策划远足活动；
8. It requires a firm knowledge, a quick brain, a hard-bitten determination, a noble personality and great spirit as well as a very practical attitude.
   发挥创造性不仅要有深厚的知识功底、敏锐的头脑、坚韧不拔的意志，而且还要有高尚的人格、崇高的精神和实事求是的科学态度。

adj

1. tough and callous by virtue of experience

   Synonym:    hard-boiledpugnacious