form and features, labor of love, tough love, tough cry

Richard Ford: By the Book

The author of "Independence Day" and "The Sportswriter" says he's not a tough cry under any circumstances. "My own book 'Canada' made me cry the last time I read it."

America and Israel

Tough love

A new book lowers the boom on some of Israel’s firmest friends

It was during my first furlough in Canada, in 1880, that the people of my native county, Oxford, Ontario, at the sugges- tion of the " Sentinel- Revie w " newspaper of Woodstock, undertook to raise funds sufficient for erecting a college building in Formosa. Ministers and other Christian friends ap- proved of the proposal, and it was carried out with enthusiasm and vigor. At an immense farewell meeting held in the Methodist church, Woodstock, on the eve of my return to Formosa, the sum of $6215 was presented to me; and with that money the college building at Tamsui was erected, and, as was fitting, it w^as called Oxford College. It is with gratitude and pleasure that I recall this and other tokens of regard on the part of my home friends ; and when I think of that farewell meeting in 1881 there stand out against the back- ground of loving memory the form and features of Oxford's greatest son, the late Rev. John Ross, of Brucefield, whose life of faith was to me an inspiration, and whose labor of love the Canadian church ought not to forget. pp 291- 292 FROM FAR FORMOSA 




 tough love
n.
The use of strict disciplinary measures and limitations on freedoms or privileges, as by a parent or guardian, as a means of fostering responsibility and expressing care or concern.

((米))（友人や家族の麻薬中毒などを治すために）きびしい態度をとること, 愛のむち.

  form and features 性格與特徵

  labor of love
 Work done for one's satisfaction rather than monetary reward. For example, The research took three years but it was a labor of love. This expression appears twice in the New Testament (Hebrews 6:10, Thessalonians 1:3), referring to those who do God's work as a labor of love. [c. 1600]

 a labor of love
（報酬目当てでなく）楽しんでやる仕事

 

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;

在天主和我們的父前，記念你們因信德所作的工作，因愛德所受的勞苦，因盼望我們的主耶穌基督所有的堅忍。(思高本)

tough
(tŭf)
adj., tough·er, tough·est.

1. Able to withstand great strain without tearing or breaking; strong and resilient: a tough all-weather fabric.
2. Hard to cut or chew: tough meat.
3. Physically hardy; rugged: tough mountaineers; a tough cop.
4. Severe; harsh: a tough winter.
5. 1. Aggressive; pugnacious.
   2. Inclined to violent or disruptive behavior; rowdy or rough: a tough street group.
6. Demanding or troubling; difficult: skipping the toughest questions.
7. Strong-minded; resolute: a tough negotiator.
8. Slang. Unfortunate; too bad: a tough break.
9. Slang. Fine; great.

n.
A violent or rowdy person; a hoodlum or thug.

idiom:tough it out Slang.

1. To get through despite hardship; endure: "It helps if one was raised to tough it out" (Gail Sheehy).

[Middle English, from Old English tōh.]

toughly tough'ly adv.
toughness tough'ness n