We called it the soft-heart, hard-ass approach.

我们称之为”心软、手段硬“的方法。

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A writer has to be both boxer and trainer at the same time, and Franzen's trainer is a hard-ass.

一个作家必须同时既是拳击手又是教练。弗兰岑这个教练十分“凶悍”。

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And yet even the stern intendant of traditional academic values couldn't quite bring himself to endorse the hard-ass Asian mothering style.

然而，即使是崇尚严格监管式教育的传统学者萨默斯也不能认同严厉的亚洲式教育方式。

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And though it felt earnest and went over well with the people who came to be served, there may be nothing sadder than watching one of the world's last great bureaucracies give up its well-earned reputation as a hard-ass.

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The running man returns not Jason Bourne but a new character, Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner), another hard-ass special-ops agent who defies his superiors and keeps on moving when they try to eliminate him, racing from continent to continent and across shantytown rooftops, through crowded marketplaces, down alleyways.

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