hardball
英 ['hɑ?db??l]
美['hɑrd'b?l]
- n. 硬式棒球（等于baseball）；（為達到某種目的而采取的）強硬手段；刀劍搏殺
實用場景例句
- I want us to play hardball on this issue.
- 我希望我們在這個問題上不手軟。
牛津詞典
- hardball politics
- 強硬政治
牛津詞典
- She is playing hardball in a world dominated by men 20 years her senior.
- 她在一個由比自己大20歲的男人們主宰的世界里作風強硬。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- Maybe we should play hardball.
- 也許我們應該玩硬式棒球.
期刊摘選
- Another problem is that banks are playing hardball with smaller companies.
- 另外一個問題是目前銀行對小企業態度強硬.
期刊摘選
- It looks like our competitors want to play hardball.
- 看來,我們的競爭對手想采取強硬的手段.
期刊摘選
- So the Mayor wants to play hardball, and we're getting caught in a squeeze play.
- 市長想要采取強硬措施, 使我們陷入進退兩難的局面.
期刊摘選
- Dukakis has a history of enduring, even excelling at, hardball campaigns.
- 杜卡基斯一向能承受, 甚至擅長選舉硬仗.
期刊摘選
- If you want to win this game, now it's time to hardball.
- 如果你們想贏得這場比賽, 是該奮力一搏的時候了.
期刊摘選
- Ah ye hardball hey? Thats just my game!
- 啊哈,想來硬的哈? 這是我的游戲!
期刊摘選
- Mr. Jones got where he is today because he always played hardball with his political adversaries.
- 瓊斯先生有今天的地位,是因為慣用很強硬的手段對付政敵.
期刊摘選
- I don't propose this turn to policy hardball lightly.
- 我絲毫沒有建議轉到強硬政策上去.
期刊摘選
- They play hardball in the senate.
- 他們在參議院采取強硬態度.
期刊摘選
- And increasingly we feel the need to match the Republican right in stridency and hardball tactics.
- 并且我們漸漸地感到在尖銳和強硬策略上,有必要與共和黨的右派較量一下.
期刊摘選
- Things are getting little tough. The president has decided to play hardball on this issue.
- 局勢變得緊張起來, 總統決定對此事采取強硬手段進行干預.
期刊摘選
- Do you want to hardball? I'm game.
- 你要玩真的 嗎,好,我陪你玩.
期刊摘選
- Our competitors are using tactics that indicate that they want to hardball.
- 我們地競爭對手所用地戰術表明他們要動真格了.
期刊摘選
- Banks are building up their capital by playing hardball with their customers.
- 許多銀行通過對客戶采取強硬措施來增加資本.
期刊摘選
- Sometimes you just cannot compromise and have to play hardball.
- 有些情況下你就不能妥協,而必須采取強硬手段.
期刊摘選
- Just like private equity, distressed debt investors are used to hardball to get their way.
- 與私人股本公司一樣, 不良債務投資者也慣于使用強硬手段,隨心所欲.
期刊摘選
- Our competitors are using tactics that indicate that they want to play hardball.
- 我們的競爭對手所用的戰術表明他們要動真格了.
期刊摘選
- I want us to play hardball on this issue.
- 我希望我們在這個問題上不手軟。
《牛津高階英漢雙解詞典》
- She is playing hardball in a world dominated by men 20 years her senior.
- 她在一個由比自己大20歲的男人們主宰的世界里作風強硬。
柯林斯例句