hardheaded

1. ADJ-GRADED （人）讲究实际的，头脑清晰的，不感情用事的
   You use hard-headed to describe someone who is practical and determined to get what they want or need, and who does not allow emotions to affect their actions.
   1. ...a hard-headed and shrewd businesswoman...
      务实、精明的女商人
   2. They are taking a hard-headed commercial decision.
      他们正在作出一项清醒冷静的商业决策。

1. Anna Forbes, the hardheaded barrister in This Life typifies the successful 1990s working woman.
   安娜福布斯在剧中是位精明的大律师，这一角色堪称90年代成功职业女性的典范。
2. With half of all marriages doomed to fail, even the moderately hardheaded may be interested in ways of mitigating the danger.
   看着一半的婚姻注定走向失败，即使是不那么顽固的人也可能对减轻离婚风险感兴趣。
3. You must want to consider to be clear about, and this major is a little abstract really, hardheaded still had better.
   你必须要考虑清楚，而且这个专业的确有些抽象，还是脚踏实地为好。
4. My father often said it was only the hardheaded thriftiness of my grandmother that kept the wolf at bay.
   父亲常说若不是祖母精明能干，克勤克俭，一家人非挨饿不可。
5. Don't be hardheaded. don't use that phone.
   不要固执，不要打电话啊。
6. It is not wise to bestow charity on foreign people under the impression that one is making a hardheaded business transaction purely for one's own selfish purposes.
   我们对于国外民族予以慈善救济时，却给人以正在做着一笔精明的纯粹是基于自己商业利益的交易的印象，那就太不明智了。
7. Governments need to re-acquire not just technical debt management skills but a hardheaded credit culture to deal with their external obligations.
   这些国家的政府不仅需要重新获得债务管理的技术，还要学习冷静务实的信用文化，以应对其外部债务问题。
8. Marked by practical hardheaded intelligence.
   以实际的、冷静的智慧为特点。

adj

1. guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory
   1. a hardheaded appraisal of our position
   2. a hard-nosed labor leader
   3. completely practical in his approach to business
   4. not ideology but pragmatic politics

   Synonym:    hard-nosedpracticalpragmatic

2. unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack

   Synonym:    mulish