Confrontations like this have earned her descriptions like hard as nails, another Iron Lady.

这种对抗为她赢得了强硬的形象和新“铁娘子”的称号。

But just now when you offered me your — er — collateral for my money you looked as hard as nails.

品提供给我时，你却显得像铁钉一样生硬。

" But it's made from a ruby, and it's hard as nails" .

“但它是用红宝石制成的， 而且像钉子一样坚硬” 。

And the counsellors—who look as hard as nails mostly—I saw, spared him as much as they could.

我看到那些辅导员——他们看起来大多像指甲一样坚硬——尽可能地饶了他。

Ay, all things would be easy enough, if Inger came home. House and land and food and grand things enough, and a big sum of money too he had, and his strength; he was hard as nails.

哎，要是英格回家，一切都会很容易的。房子、土地、食物和宏伟的东西已经足够了，他还有一大笔钱，还有他的力量；他像钉子一样坚硬。