harsh
英検2級・大学受験厳しい・過酷な、厳しい・耳障りな
意味
- (感触や目・耳など五感に)不快な,いやな
- 厳しい(severe);過酷な(stern)
例文
Teenagers must adapt to today's harsh realities.
１０代の若者達は今日の厳しい現実に適応しなければならない。
You don't have to use such a harsh tone with me.
そんなトゲトゲしい言い方しなくたっていいだろう。
The teacher wore a harsh expression on his face.
先生は厳しい表情をしていた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English harsk, harisk(e), hask(e), herris. Century derived the term from Old Norse harskr (whence Danish harsk (“rancid”), dialectal Norwegian hersk, Swedish härsk, Swedish härsken); the Middle English Dictionary derives it from that and Middle Low German harsch (“rough”, literally “hairy”) (whence also German harsch), from haer (“hair”), from Old Saxon hār, from Proto-West Germanic *hār; the Oxford Dictionary of English derives it from Middle Low German alone.