hard-won in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for hard-won in the English»French Dictionary

hard-won ADJ

hard-won

durement acquis

Translations for hard-won in the French»English Dictionary

labor|ieux (laborieuse) [labɔʀjø, øz] ADJ

1. laborieux:

laborieux (laborieuse) travail, tractations, processus

arduous, laborious

laborieux (laborieuse) accouchement

difficult

2. laborieux style:

laborieux (laborieuse)

laborious

3. laborieux:

laborieux (laborieuse) classes, couches

working

laborieux (laborieuse) victoire

hard-won attr

4. laborieux inf:

c'est laborieux!

it's taking long enough!

5. laborieux dated personne:

laborieux (laborieuse)

hardworking

c'est laborieux de leur faire faire leurs devoirs!

it's hard work getting them to do their homework!

difficile [difisil] ADJ

1. difficile (malaisé, pénible):

difficile moment, parcours, conditions, atterrissage

difficult

difficile langue, problème, ascension, rôle, passage

difficult, hard

difficile victoire

hard-won attr

avoir des débuts difficiles

to have a difficult start

c'est difficile à faire, il est difficile de faire

it's difficult ou hard to do

le plus difficile reste à faire

the worst is yet to come

2. difficile (indocile):

difficile personne, caractère, humeur

difficult

un enfant difficile à élever

a difficult child

être difficile à vivre

to be difficult to live with

3. difficile (exigeant):

difficile

fussy (sur about)

il ne mange rien, il est trop difficile

he doesn't eat anything, he's too fussy ou finicky

je ne t'achète plus rien, tu es trop difficile!

I won't buy you anything else, you're too fussy!

est-ce que ce cadeau va lui plaire? elle est si difficile!

will she like this present? she's so hard to please!

tu le trouves beau? tu n'es pas difficile!

do you think he's good-looking? you're not hard to please!

être difficile sur choix, nourriture, boisson

to be fussy about

faire le difficile , faire la difficile

to be fussy

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

But it's so indulgently perverse, and so viscerally disturbing to watchnot to mention a painfully vain exercise in self-worshipthat the lesson is incredibly hard-won.

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Finding beauty in unexpected places and maintaining reverence for hard-won scars, these two brothers learn, finally, that even broken things can be perfect.

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The proletariat would lose all its hard-won independent position and be reduced once more to a mere appendage of official bourgeois democracy.

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Was that side of the celebrity circus a concern to the working-class rapper with the hard-won street-cred?

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But a strong attack made late in the day gave them a hard-won victory.

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