hardshipとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑːdˌʃɪp/
• ハイフネーション: hard‧ship

名詞

hardship (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 hardships)

1. Difficulty or trouble; hard times.

   He has survived periods of financial hardship before.

   • 2020 May 20, Philip Haigh, “Ribblehead: at the heart of the S&C's survival and its revival”, in Rail, page 26:

     The TUCC's role was to assess what (if any) hardship a BR closure proposal would cause, and to make recommendations to ministers who would have the final say.

反意語

• softship

動詞

hardship (三人称単数 現在形 hardships, 現在分詞 hardshipping, 過去形および過去分詞形 hardshipped)

1. (transitive) To treat (a person) badly; to subject to hardships.
   • 1969, Tract Series (issues 96-129, page 529)

     […] an adjustment of the income tax could easily produce the twenty millions without hardshipping any industrious person in the community […]

   • 1970, Reading Reform Foundation, The Annual Reading Reform Foundation Conference, page 47:

     Although we lost the election by the narrowest of margins, the people of Oregon heard a great deal about education, and particularly about how "look-say" reading instruction was hardshipping Oregon school children.