Harsh

(adj.) sharply disagreeable; rigorous; 'the harsh facts of court delays'; 'an abrasive character' .

(adj.) severe; 'a harsh penalty' .

(adj.) unkind or cruel or uncivil; 'had harsh words'; 'a harsh and unlovable old tyrant'; 'a rough answer' .

(adj.) unpleasantly stern; 'wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus'; 'the nomad life is rough and hazardous' .

(adj.) disagreeable to the senses; 'the harsh cry of a blue jay'; 'harsh cognac'; 'the harsh white light makes you screw up your eyes'; 'harsh irritating smoke filled the hallway' .

杰西编辑

• He was very imperious, and harsh to the children. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Once--unknown, and unloved, I held him harsh and strange; the low stature, the wiry make, the angles, the darkness, the manner, displeased me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Her attitude toward the captive was most harsh and brutal. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• A minute ago, the boy had looked the quiet child, mild, dejected creature that harsh treatment had made him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Nay, let me answer for you, that in a few this harsh temper may be found but not in the majority of mankind. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I approached and knocked at the door, which was instantly opened by a tall, gaunt woman with a harsh, forbidding face. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Sisal also lacks the flexibility of Manila, being much more stiff and harsh. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It was one of those colourless days when everything looks heavy and harsh. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• His last words had left a bad, harsh impression; he, at least, had failed in the disposing of a chance he was lord of. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• When they had encountered each other's glance several times in this way, the stranger, in a harsh, deep voice, broke silence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• A harsher man would rejoice now in the power I have of turning upon your aunt by going no further in the business. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The day I mean, said Yeobright, his voice growing louder and harsher, was the day you shut the door against my mother and killed her. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• To hear the woman whom--no harsher name than folly given! 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• But everything in the Roman state was earlier, cruder, and clumsier; the injustices were more glaring, the conflicts harsher. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There was to be no reconstruction, but only a restoration of the old order--in the harsher form necessitated by the poverty of the new time. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Thus liberty, getting out of all order and reason, passes into the harshest and bitterest form of slavery. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I remembered in one of her harshest moments a quotation of mine had roused her to anger and disdain. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

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