| 单词 | give somebody a hard time |
| 释义 | give somebody a hard timegive somebody a hard time informal a) to treat someone badly or cause problems for them 〔故意〕让某人难堪[难受]，让某人吃苦头 Giving you a hard time, is she? 她让你难堪了，是吗？ They reached the border where officials gave them a hard time. 他们到了边境，在那里受到边防官的刁难。 b) CRITICIZEto criticize someone a lot 严厉批评某人 Hostile critics have given Hartman a hard time. 充满敌意的评论家严厉地批评了哈特曼。 Examples from the Corpus give somebody a hard time• Tom gave him a hard time.• She left the company because her boss was giving her a really hard time.• The laughter had stopped a while ago and, ever since, Lydia's imagination had been giving her a hard time.• My mother gave me a really hard time about Freddy. She couldn't stand him.• The crew gave him a hard time, and even the cast was cautious about him.• Her boss, Detective Hineline, is always giving her a hard time and she never gets really mad at him.• When I first came here everyone gave me a really hard time, because I was the first woman to run a department.• Watson had been given a hard time from the Wednesday crowd before those goals but is now hoping the tide has turned.• Maybe Modigliani gave them a hard time, I don't know.• Stop giving me such a hard time. I'm doing my best.• If you wonder why people give you a hard time, it's because you write shit like this.• Yet Wakefield gave them a hard time throughout. → give somebody a hard time at hard1(9) |
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