tough love

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The compassionate use of stringent disciplinary measures, to attempt to improve someone's behavior. idiomatic,uncountable
    — [H]e found himself surrounded by a circle of caring friends and relatives who told him one by one that they loved him but could not continue to live with him or be his friend the way he was. As one of his closest friends recalled, it was a show of tough love.
动词 v.
  1. Alternative form of tough-love. alt-of,alternative
    — She could not be "tough loved" into improving her behavior and saddling her with full responsibility for her problems would have been inappropriate.

词形变化

tough loves present,singular,third-person tough loving participle,present tough loved participle,past tough loved past
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