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词组 hard-boiled
释义 hard-boiled
adjective
callous, cynical, emotionally uninvolved, tough; describing the characteristics of macho tough guys in “hard-boiled” pulp fiction US, 1904
Figurative usage of the solid properties of hard-boiled eggs, or clothing vigorously boiled in starch; applied by Mark Twain (1835–1910) to refer to rigid rules of grammar (1886); in the early 1900s it applied to hard or stiff clothing; by 1918 it was being used to describe a person who stuck rigidly to the rules; from which the current sense evolved.
  • Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) was the writer who changed the Hard-Boiled protagonist, and most influenced all subsequent Hard-Boiled writers. — Paul Duncan, Noir Fiction, p. 10, 2000
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