例文・使い方で印象づける「tough」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...They were a parcel of tough blades, and would nothave swallowed such a pill... 
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 「The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha」
... “He maybe lean, but he's tough; tough and healthy...
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
...Arras to him was over before theinfantry crossed the top, and the tough bit of the Somme was October, notSeptember...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...Tom Platt followed with something about "the rough and tough McGinn, who would pilot the vessel in...
Rudyard Kipling 「"Captains Courageous"」
... He felt the point touch thesoft, tough fabric of the leather...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar」
...Speke appeared the more worn of the two; he was excessively lean, but in reality was in good, tough condition...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...The outer part is a thincoating of loose threads: the inner is tough paper, impervious web, justlike that which forms the wasps' hive, but stronger...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...“Why, it’s as hard and dry as shoe-leather, and quite as tough, I suspect...
W.H.G. Kingston 「The Two Supercargoes」
...In a short time Harry and Aboh came back with the saucepan of water, from which we filled our mugs, for the tough elephant-meat made us thirsty...
W.H.G. Kingston 「The Two Supercargoes」
...On the trees, round the carcass, were perched a number of vultures, waiting to make a meal of the remains, as soon as the hunters had cut it up, for their beaks could not penetrate the tough hide...
Captain Frederick Marryat 「The Mission; or Scenes in Africa」
...We ate no dogs on this trip, for variousreasons, mainly, that the eating of dog is only a last resort, and wehad plenty of food, and raw dog is flavorless and very tough...
Matthew A. Henson 「A Negro Explorer at the North Pole」
...She saw the long gnarled fingers of the tough little trees and they looked like the fingers of Elspeth down there beneath the earth pulling against the boy...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
...The lastmethod, when employed upon slices of meat that had been hacked from afrozen hind-quarter, produced results that were undeniably tough and notparticularly good...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...Then take a brush made from stiff tough grass, a small brush or the wing of a chicken or sage-hen and brush out all finger marks, etc...
A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding 「Wolf and Coyote Trapping」
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