Chorus) Tough one, tough one, tough one For he would carve the partridge if it Should be a tough one. EXIT Chloe and Chorus.--英文原著 · 《Love and Freindship》
One could not help wondering where Tom Foster got his gentleness. In Cincinnati he had lived in a neighborhood where gangs of tough boys prowled through the streets, and all through his early forma- tive years he ran about with tough boys. For a while he was a messenger for a telegraph company and delivered messages in a neighborhood sprinkled with houses of prostitution. The women in the houses knew and loved Tom Foster and the tough boys in the gangs loved him also.英文原著 · 《Winesburg,Ohio》
At first, truly, to all them that, professing learning, inveigh against poetry, may justly be objected, that they go very near to ungratefulness to seek to deface that which, in the noblest nations and languages that are known, hath been the first light-giver to ignorance, and first nurse, whose milk by little and little enabled them to feed afterwards of tougher knowledges. And will you play the hedgehog, that being received into the den, drove out his host? {3} or rather the vipers, that with their birth kill their parents?英文原著 · 《A Defence of Poesie and Poems》
"So I saw," said the other; "you're kind a emphatic in yer remarks. Yeh ought to give the gentleman a chance to git used to the ways of th' country. He'll be as tough as th' rest of us if you'll give him a chance. I kin see it in him."英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
Luther, the possessor of the toughest muscles in. the gang, felt a sick man's irri- tation at the tone of pity.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
Tasting the liquor, he discovered it to be raw spirit. He tossed off the draught, and then felt much better. The second cupful he proffered to Corpang. The latter took a single sip, swallowed it, and then passed the cup back without a word. He refused to drink again, as long as they were in the cave. Maskull finished the cup, and began to throw off care. Going to the meat line, he took down a large double handful, and sat down on a pile of skins to eat at his ease. The flesh was tough and coarse, but he had never tasted anything sweeter.英文原著 · 《A Voyage to Arcturus》
And I told her, I said, "The Conways are tough opponents." And she said, "They may be tough, but they're not Texas tough." Loss is a sobering phenomenon.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
BGM: Tough (feat. K.S. Rhoads) by Amy Stroup ♪ We're gonna show you that we're tough ♪ ♪ We're gonna show you that we're tough ♪ ♪ Knock us down, we'll get back up ♪ ♪ Yeah, we're gonna show you what we've got ♪ My homies decided to pop by and, uh, play some Texas Hold'em, so I'm gonna have to take美剧 · 《The Good Doctor》
Look, I don't know anything about this guy, But I know that you're a tough lady, and I come from a family of tough ladies.美剧 · 《Modern Family》