Tough-minded

Definition

tough /tʌf/ adj ( -er, -est ) ၁။ ခိုင္ေသာ။ tough leather boots ❍ tough material/plastic. ၂။ အၾကမ္းခံႏိုင္ေသာ။ These animals need to be tough to survive the arctic winter. ❍ He should recover—he's pretty tough. ၃။ ( esp US ) ၾကမ္းေသာ။ စ႐ိုက္ၾကမ္းေသာ။ one of the toughest areas of the city ❍ He often plays the tough guy in Hollywood movies. ၄။ ( derog ) ရင့္ေသာ။ ပ်ဥ္းတြဲေသာ။ ၅။ ~ (on/with sb/sth) ၾကမ္းေသာ။ (ဗန္း) ပြဲၾကမ္းေသာ။ tough measures to deal with terrorism ❍ take a tough line with offenders ❍ be tough on crime/criminals ❍ It's time to get tough with football hooligans. ၆။ ခက္ခဲေသာ။ ၾကမ္းတမ္းေသာ။ a tough assignment / problem / journey ❍ It's tough finding a job these days. ❍ She's had rather a tough time lately. ❍ Her successor will find her a tough act to follow (ie will find it difficult to do as well as her). ၇။ ~ (on sb) ( infml ) ကံဆိုးေသာ။ (က) (showing sympathy): That's tough! (ie Bad luck!) ❍ It's rather tough on him getting ill just before his holiday. (ခ) (showing a lack of sympathy): ‘I haven't got any money. ’ ‘Tough!’ ❍ It's your tough luck if you lose her. n ( dated infml ) လူမိုက္။ လူရမ္းကား။ ❏ (as) tough as old boots [ IDM ] ( infml ) ခက္ထေရာ္ေသာ (သို႔) ဒူေပနာေပခံေသာ (သို႔) ရင့္ေထာ္ေသာ၊ ရြတ္တြေသာ။ ❏ toughen /'tʌfn/ v ~ (sth/sb) (up) အၾကမ္းခံႏိုင္ေစသည္ (သို႔) ခက္ခဲေအာင္ တင္းက်ပ္ေပးသည္။ toughened glass ❍ The government plans to toughen the immigration laws. ❍ His parents made him join the army to toughen him up. ❏ tough luck [ IDM ] ၁။ (used to show sympathy) ကံဆိုးေလစြ။ ကြၽတ္ကြၽတ္။ ၂။ ( ironic ) (used to show that one does not really care about sb's bad luck) ကံဆိုးတယ္မွတ္ေပါ့ကြာ။ If you don't like it that's just tough luck. ❏ tough-minded adj အေရထူေသာ။ စိတ္ဓာတ္ ခက္မာေသာ။ ❏ toughness n [U] အၾကမ္းပတမ္းခံႏိုင္မႈ (သို႔) အေရထူျခင္း။ စိတ္ဓာတ္မာျခင္း။ physical/mental toughness.

Examples

1. He’s having a really tough time at the moment.
2. It was a tough decision to move to London.
3. Many companies are facing tough competition.
4. I think she’ll be all right because she’s very tough.
5. A tough businesswoman
6. The report contained tough criticism of the company’s management style.
7. She’s campaigning for tough new laws on industrial pollution.
8. [be tough on] : The new mayor promises to be tough on crime.
9. [get tough with] : She promised to get tough with people who claim benefits fraudulently.
10. [take a tough stance/stand] : We must take a tough stance against terrorism.
11. The tool is made from a very tough and resilient steel.
12. A couple of tough-looking lads
13. He grew up in a tough inner-city neighbourhood.
14. A good teacher of Chinese is a tough get at the moment.
15. A toughly worded message
16. An athlete needs to show both physical and mental toughness.