The second News Corporation is strategic and hard-nosed, bordering on stingy.
第二个新闻集团讲究战略、注重实际，近乎吝啬。
How tough is it, for example, to engineer romance wearing a knitted tie in a hard-nosed newsroom?
有多困难？举个例子，如何在讲究实际的新闻办公室里策划一场罗曼史？
To avoid such pitfalls, Pepperberg designs experiments with the care of a hard-nosed skeptic.
为了避免这样的错误，佩珀堡以一个固执的怀疑论者的认真来设计实验。
Some people are said to be hard-nosed . They will not change their opinions or positions on anything.
有些人据说很顽固，他们不会改变自己对任何事情的观点和立场。
I say he’s a tough, hard-nosed type of guy who played with every inch of his body physically and mentally.
我想说他是一个坚韧，实用型球员，他会用他的身体和智力与你对决。
Partly because he is surrounded by hard-nosed strategists, such as David Axelrod, who excel at campaigning.
一方面，因为他身边是一些顽固的战略家，比如精于选战的大卫•阿克塞罗德。
They know this is the glory of God the deficit, but still his heart as a hard-nosed, do not want to repent.
明明自己知道这样做实在的亏缺神的荣耀，自己却还是一次次心如铁石一样，不想悔改。
A day later the Bank of England abandoned its hard-nosed attitude to greasing the money markets (see article).
在降息后那一天，英国中央银行抛弃其顽固派立场，给货币市场加了点油（见文）。
It would be nice to report that a small band of hard-nosed Republicans was bringing fiscal restraint to California.
如果报道说，一小帮顽固的共和党人在给加州制定一个紧缩支出财政，那是好事。
Rather than being a hard-nosed venture capitalist, he is more like a financial father-figure to young entrepreneurs.
对于年轻企业家而言，他更像一个理财父亲，而不是精明的风险投资者。
Still, as Dr Zyphur is keen to note, not all academic work has to be about hard-nosed application in the here and now.
还有，正如zyphur博士热心提醒的那样，不是所有的学术性研究即刻就要与精明的实际应用有联系。
The hard-nosed attitude of Ms. Ma, the BMW woman, earned her a gentle reprimand recently from the film director Zhang Yimou.
马小姐，这位宝马女精明的态度，为她赢得了电影导演张艺谋一个轻轻地谴责。
If Terra Firma can't manage to muster empathy from a mostly working-class jury, he is unlikely to get it from hard-nosed investors.
如果泰丰资本不能设法唤起陪审团(大部分是劳工阶层)的同情，那么它更不可能从精明的投资者那里得到同情。
Not only is she beautiful, she's also a talented, hard-nosed reporter who will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of a story.
她不仅美貌，而且还是个有才干，顽强不曲的记者，什么也不能阻止她揭露事情的真相。
Sure, in their Mr Spock mode traders scour the horizon for hard-nosed data, read their analysts’ reports and digest breaking news.
当然，交易员有时表现得像《星际迷航》中的史巴克，无远弗届地搜寻客观的数据，阅读分析师的报告，研判突发新闻。
[color=#444444]Still, as Dr Zyphur is keen to note, not all academic work has to be about hard-nosed application in the here and now.
[color=#444444]同时，塞弗博士也热心指出，并非所有的学术研究必须被用于当时当处的精确应用。
This hard-nosed approach irritated some foreign athletes, who had less chance to practise at the facilities than did their Canadian rivals.
温哥华冬奥会上一板一眼的赛制模式，加上加拿大本国选手比他国选手训练机会更多，这让国外的选手十分愤怒。
A hard-nosed police detective and a conflicted ex-boxer-turned-private-eye, hired by the strip club owners, set out to find him before he strikes again.
一个精明的警察侦探和冲突的前拳击手把私人眼，由长条俱乐部业主聘请，去之前，他再次找到他。
Their policy mixed hard-nosed security operations and an extensive deradicalisation programme in the prisons with social measures for the families of militants.
不仅其监牢中融合有强大的安全举动与广泛的反激进举措，针对军事家族也施行了一些社会措施。
Monsanto, a hard-nosed pioneer of transgenic crops, is donating its drought-resistant technology to a coalition called Water Efficient Maize for Africa, for example.
比如，孟山都公司-顽固的转基因作物的先驱-正把其抗旱技术转让给名为非洲节水玉米的联合公司。
In addition, Apple's hard-nosed stance against Flash in the browser will impede this movement because it will require two completely separate creation processes.
此外，苹果反对在浏览器中使用Flash的强硬立场也是一个巨大障碍，因为需要两个完全不同的创建过程。
What about Israel, a country that (in matters aquatic, as in much else) views itself as eternally vulnerable while its neighbours often regard it as a hard-nosed bully?
又如何来看待以色列呢？正像处理其他事务那样，这个国家在水资源问题上时常视自己为容易遭受欺凌的弱者，而邻居们则把它看做是一个极难对付并蛮横无理的对手。
Yet since 2007 French diplomats have worked under the strain of an unresolved conflict between Mr Kouchner's moral pretensions and Mr Sarkozy's hands-on, hard-nosed style.
然而2007年以后，库什内的道德抱负和萨科奇的务实风格争论悬而未决，法国外交家们在他俩的分歧中一直处于紧张状态。
He has also established a reputation in the league as a hard-nosed defender and able shotmaker, though his "thug" image tends to overshadow his positive on-court contributions.
尽管巴恩斯的“流氓”形象给他出色的场上贡献减了不少分，但是当时他在联盟中被称作一个顽强的防守者，以及一个有能力的得分王。
It was as hard-nosed an assesment of what humans continue to do to each other as you might have heard from Harry Truman, though the steel-tipped Jack Kennedy was the predecessor invoked.
对于人类如何继续对待同类的评价，与你可能从哈里•杜鲁门（Harry Truman）口中听到的一样不讲情面，尽管杰克•肯尼迪（Jack Kennedy）是奥巴马提到的前辈。
The most hard-nosed realists, including some of the diplomats sitting behind their foreign-minister bosses, say that extraordinary compromises will have to be made, particularly on women’s rights.
但是最顽固的现实主义者，包括一些身后有各国外交部老大撑腰的外交官们，表示：必须要达成一些特殊妥协，尤其是在妇女权利方面。
The most hard-nosed realists, including some of the diplomats sitting behind their foreign-minister bosses, say that extraordinary compromises will have to be made, particularly on women's rights.
但是最顽固的现实主义者，包括一些身后有各国外交部老大撑腰的外交官们，表示：必须要达成一些特殊妥协，尤其是在妇女权利方面。
"The first is the hard-nosed, tough, demanding perfectionist," says Stern. "they can be difficult to work with, but they will listen to reason because they're all about doing the best job they can."
“第一类是死硬，强硬，要求完美主义”，Stern说，“很难与他们共事，但他们愿意听取事情前因后果，因为要做到最好。”
"The first is the hard-nosed, tough, demanding perfectionist," says Stern. "they can be difficult to work with, but they will listen to reason because they're all about doing the best job they can."
“第一类是死硬，强硬，要求完美主义”，Stern说，“很难与他们共事，但他们愿意听取事情前因后果，因为要做到最好。”
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