inured a. 习惯的, 坚强的
inured[ adj ]
made tough by habitual exposure
<adj.all>
hardened fishermena peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured
our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men
Inure \In*ure"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inured}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Inuring}.] [From pref. in- in + ure use, work. See {Ure}
use, practice, {Opera}, and cf. {Manure}.]
To apply in use; to train; to discipline; to use or accustom
till use gives little or no pain or inconvenience; to harden;
to habituate; to practice habitually. ``To inure our prompt
obedience.'' --Milton.
He . . . did inure them to speak little. --Sir T.
North.
Inured and exercised in learning. --Robynson
(More's
Utopia).
The poor, inured to drudgery and distress. --Cowper.
``Here the fortune of the day turned, and all things
became adverse to the Romans; the place deep with ooze,
sinking under those who stood, slippery to such as
advanced; their armor heavy, the waters deep; nor could
they wield, in that uneasy situation, their weighty
javelins. The barbarians on the contrary, were inured
to encounter in the bogs, their persons tall, their
spears long, such as could wound at a distance.'' In
this morass the Roman army, after an ineffectual
struggle, was irrecoverably lost; nor could the body of
the emperor ever be found. Such was the fate of Decius,
in the fiftieth year of his age; . . . --Gibbon
[quoting
Tacitus]
(Decline and
Fall of the
Roman Empire,
Ch. 10)
[PJC]
- Moreover, part of Easter House's earnings inured to Kurtz's benefit.
- The tax court ruled that, under the Internal Revenue Code, the church was not entitled to tax-exempt status for the three years at issue because some of the church's revenues "inured to the benefit of" Hubbard and his wife, Susan.
- No, because it contains no new insights and we have become inured to sexual violence.
- Others, inured to high incomes by knowledge about what people get in TV, professional sports and Wall Street, buried the story or ignored it.
- People are getting inured to short-term market fluctuations." Strong Funds in Milwaukee reported that telephone volume picked up toward the end of the day, with more exchanges into stock funds than out of them.
- She said there was no information on the inured.
- For a youthful generation seemingly inured to media violence, this arsenal has lost much of its power to awe or terrify.
- "Transmission has stopped for five years," he said. "It is under control." Teams worked in villages inured to the daily routine of small children leading around sightless elders.