英语词汇hard-boiled的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

hard-boiled. Tough, strict, unsentimental. The comparison is to a hard-boiled egg, a term that dates back to early 18th- century England. The American tough-guy use of the word dates from the late 19th or early 20th century. American writ- ers seem to like the expression; Mark Twain, Eugene O’Neill, Theodore Dreiser, Maxwell Anderson, Raymond Chandler, and Ernest Hemingway are among the many writers who have used it. Wrote Hemingway, a tough guy who knew the score, in The Sun Also Rises (1926): “It’s awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”

词汇	hard-boiled
词源	hard-boiled. Tough, strict, unsentimental. The comparison is to a hard-boiled egg, a term that dates back to early 18th- century England. The American tough-guy use of the word dates from the late 19th or early 20th century. American writ- ers seem to like the expression; Mark Twain, Eugene O’Neill, Theodore Dreiser, Maxwell Anderson, Raymond Chandler, and Ernest Hemingway are among the many writers who have used it. Wrote Hemingway, a tough guy who knew the score, in The Sun Also Rises (1926): “It’s awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”
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