hard-headed
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ˌhard-ˈheaded adjective EMOTIONALpractical and able to make difficult decisions without letting your emotions affect your judgment 头脑清醒的，不感情用事的 a hard-headed business tycoon 头脑冷静的商业巨头
Examples from the Corpus
hard-headed• But, in the privacy of the polling booth, cooler and more hard-headed calculations came into play.• The consequence was a timid but hard-headed daughter Sethe would die to protect.• To see such hard-headed investigators wrestling with such uncertain data is fascinating.• So why should down-to-earth, hard-headed Lancastrians be convinced by the marketing of this toolkit?• A useful, sensible, hard-headed man.• a hard-headed managerˌhard-ˈheaded adjectiveChineseSyllable
difficult decisions make and to practical able Corpus
hard-headed
ˌhard-ˈheaded
adjective
practical and able to make difficult decisions without letting your emotions affect your judgment:
a hard-headed business tycoon
ˌhard-ˈheaded
adjectivepractical and able to make difficult decisions without letting your emotions affect your judgment: