rugged的意思|rugged的解释-里氏词典

rugged ['rʌgid]

a. 高低不平的, 崎岖的, 粗糙的

rugged

[ adj ]

sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring

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with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture

having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface

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furrowed fields

his furrowed face lit by a warming smile

topographically very uneven

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broken terrain

rugged ground

very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution

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a rugged competitive examination

the rugged conditions of frontier life

the competition was tough

it's a tough life

it was a tough job

Rugged \Rug"ged\, a. [See {Rug}, n.]
1. Full of asperities on the surface; broken into sharp or
irregular points, or otherwise uneven; not smooth; rough;
as, a rugged mountain; a rugged road.

The rugged bark of some broad elm. --Milton.

2. Not neat or regular; uneven.

His well-proportioned beard made rough and rugged.
--Shak.

3. Rough with bristles or hair; shaggy. ``The rugged Russian
bear.'' --Shak.

4. Harsh; hard; crabbed; austere; -- said of temper,
character, and the like, or of persons.

Neither melt nor endear him, but leave him as hard,
rugged, and unconcerned as ever. --South.

5. Stormy; turbulent; tempestuous; rude. --Milton.

6. Rough to the ear; harsh; grating; -- said of sound, style,
and the like.

Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.
--Dryden.

7. Sour; surly; frowning; wrinkled; -- said of looks, etc.
``Sleek o'er your rugged looks.'' --Shak.

8. Violent; rude; boisterrous; -- said of conduct, manners,
etc.

9. Vigorous; robust; hardy; -- said of health, physique, etc.
[Colloq. U.S.]

Syn: Rough; uneven; wrinkled; cragged; coarse; rude; harsh;
hard; crabbed; severe; austere; surly; sour; frowning;
violent; boisterous; tumultuous; turbulent; stormy;
tempestuous; inclement.
※ -- {Rug"ged*ly}, adv. -- {Rug"ged*ness},
n.

The road now carries travelers on a rugged five-hour journey in the shadow of the Andes' majestic spine, across the barren and cold altiplano and skirting volcanic cones.
The higher we climbed, the more rugged and unfinished-looking the mountains became.
Bush took his speedboat Fidelity out for an early morning spin in the Atlantic while fog still blanketed the rugged coastline around Walker's Point.
The desperate search for a 9-year-old boy missing since Sunday with his pony in the rugged canyons of central Oregon resumed at daybreak today but already poor weather worsened.
In the Lockheed transaction, the aircraft being acquired by the Civil Aviation Administration of China are civilian versions of the rugged C-130 Hercules that the U.S. Air Force uses to drop paratroops and fly supplies to poorly equipped airstrips.
Not only is the terrain more rugged, but officials fear volunteers might not be prepared for encounters with the bears that prowl the sound's forested, uninhabited islands.
The guerrillas, who are based in Pakistan, reportedly control most of the rugged countryside.
A high-ranking Sandinista officer flew about 25 journalists, most of them American, to this rugged outpost on the Honduran border his troops retook from Contra rebels in a major offensive.
Gillette Co.'s razor ads use images of men as "lone wolves" in rugged, outdoor situations, says Nancy Posternak, a sociologist and senior vice president at J. Walter Thompson.
It has burned for ten days through rugged wildlife habitat in the eastern Utah reservation.
And he added that, unless the two sides are "on the same wavelength," the Montreal meeting could be "rugged."
A 17-car Amtrak train with more than 300 people aboard derailed Sunday night during a snowstorm in a rugged, mountainous canyon, but no injuries were reported, authorities said.
The Soviet-built Antonov An-26 airliner went down near Zabol, a city in eastern Iran close to the rugged Afghan border, the Islamic Republic News Agency said.
Redford has long been known as one of Hollywood's premier do-gooders, using the rugged, casual charm that launched his film career to call attention to environmental issues.
Some 4,500 residents of the Lake Wildwood area, where some houses cost $1 million, were forced from their homes twice in the past two days as the out-of-control wildfire raged through rugged terrain.
The Languedoc's most interesting appellation, spread over 11 newly-defined but almost equally rugged terroirs of arid, generally hilly vineyards.
The Bushmen, part of 201 Battalion, were used to track guerrillas in the rugged bush of northern Namibia, where most of the fighting took place.
A state agency has offered Bob Hope $20 million for 5,700 acres of his mountain property to spare the rugged canyon country from development, an official said.
Fire information officer Bob Krepps said the crews were going into rugged terrain in the Elkhorn Mountains, in an attempt to contain the southern edge of the blaze that has burned 10 houses and cabins.
On a riverboat that charges tourists $17 a ride, President Bush and Chancellor Helmut Kohl cruised down the Rhine River on Wednesday past hillside vineyards and ancient castles silhouetted atop rugged ridgelines.
The wreckage of a private airplane with seven bodies inside was found Friday in the rugged mountains around Cumberland Gap, officials said.
Now, Golob said, the focus has shifted to an even costlier labor-intensive, long-term effort to clean up the rugged coastal area.
Firefighters working in rugged terrain today battled a brush fire, apparently started by target shooters, that damaged five million-dollar homes and forced the evacuation of about 175 people.
The village is in an isolated mountain area, at least a two-hour hike to the nearest road and about 50 miles from the provincial capital on rugged roads.
Officers said the four were killed on a rugged gravel highway while bound from the farming district of Yanacancha to Huancayo, the state capital 55 miles east.
"One rugged Northwestern sand castle builder is worth a dozen East Coasters," he said.
That blaze has burned more than 2,000 acres of rugged terrain and was only 15 percent contained.
It said nearly a fourth of the total _ 865 people _ come from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the rugged, sparsely populated desert area of western China that is home to China's Central Asiatic Moslem minorities.
The government is trying to cut off these sources of funds, at the same time sending in more troops. Although the three trans-Andean pipelines are buried wherever possible, there are particularly vulnerable stretches across rugged gullies and swamps.
A young woman lost for two weeks in rugged South Carolina wilderness said Tuesday she felt desperate at times but never thought she would die.

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