1 (refined) white sugar

1 hard

2 stiff

3 strong

4 firm

5 resolutely

6 doggedly

7 good (quality)

8 able (person)

1 sugar

2 sweets

3 candy

4 classifier: 颗 kē

5 classifier: 块 kuài

1 candy

2 classifier: 粒 lì

1 stiff

2 rigid

1 lit. eats soft food, but refuses hard food (idiom)

2 amenable to coaxing but not coercion

1 one man's meat is another man's poison (idiom)

1 to coax and pester (idiom)

2 to wheedle

3 to cajole

1 to force oneself upon sb (idiom)

2 to rape