硬变 meaning in English

cirrhosis

Goodyear was living near some of these poor men and he got to work on this question of making rubber hard and strong
就在这些可怜的人的附近住着一个名叫固特异的人，他着手研究使橡胶变硬变结实的问题。
Then , after an overall analysis to the current condition of it in china , it summed up some special point for developing of it : from hardware to software , reasonable consumption and information service were gaining advantage , the competing for price became a tactic , the networking became a feature . while the labor force , the market and the environment were taking advantage , the insufficient funds - , the low - leveled technology and the unfitful structure of product existed as disadvantages
然后，通过对我国it产业总体现状的充分分析，总结出我国it产业现时“由硬变软、理性消费和信息服务占优势、价格竞争为手段、网络化为特征”的几个发展特点，指出我国具有的劳动力、市场和环境等优势和存在的诸如资金不足、技术水平低、产品结构不合理等一些问题。