As difficult and painful as holding a hot potato.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

With a plot furnished by Homer, against a setting by Dante, and with characters motivated by Shakespeare, Ulysses is really not as difficult to comprehend as critics like to pretend."

荷马设置的情节，但丁提供的背景，莎士比亚推动的角色，《尤利西斯》真的不像,评论家鼓吹的那样难懂“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

and that's often very difficult to understand, just like Birmingham as well.

非常难懂，这也像伯明翰一样。

方言口音很重 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But Mark Zandi of Moody's Economy.com in New York says that as difficult as 2009 has been so far, the rest of the year could be worse.

VOA: standard.2009.03.10

Finally this may be news to you, but this is not English 10A or Math 55, meaning you'll not have to read as much as you will read for 10A or for a history class, and this class is not as difficult as Math 55 so you rest.

最后这个可能对你们来说有些新，但这不是10A号英语课和55号数学课，也就是说你不用像10A号课或者历史课那样做大量的阅读，也不像55号数学课一样难，所以你们可以轻松些。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

And I feel like having dealt with adversity really helps me to lead a group of men through difficult times as well."

VOA: special.2010.06.02

But it's a difficult claim because even as Milton makes this claim, he manages to undermine its force.

但这是困难的，因为即便是弥尔顿做出了这一宣告，他也打算降低它所蕴含的威力。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Many of his stories are about a child trying to survive while facing difficult emotions such as fear.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

We can never just have it there before us or, as I say, if we can--if we can--it's a very, very difficult act of concentration.

我们永远不能只面对着它，或者，要我来说，如果我们可以的话，那将需要高度集中注意力，这是很难的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

We all know that some people do not seem as emotionally strong as others when life gets difficult.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

He says,"There are many things in Paul's letters very difficult to understand. And some people twist them to their own destruction as they do other kinds of scripture."

他说“保罗的书信里有很多,难以理解之处，而有些人曲解它们,这是自取沉沦，正如他们对待其他圣典一样“

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

This makes it more difficult for the body to effectively use the same amount of oxygen as it would on the ground.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

The reason that it seems difficult to say though is because it seems like it would be just as plausible to say the reverse.

但真的要说出来似乎有困难,因为反过来说也貌似合理。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And an international movement known as hospice has helped bring attention to difficult-to-treat pain for the dying.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

What was the most difficult day for you as Chief of Staff and the most joyous day, and the toughest assignment President Bush gave you?

作为白宫办公厅主任,最艰难的一天是哪天,最高兴的又是哪天，还有布什总统派给你的,最难的任务是什么？

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

President Obama also spoke about the difficult time people in the Gulf area were going through as a result of the oil spill.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

Well, I think, as the convention, it would be very difficult to leave the government because nobody else is just living in the state of nature.

我认为，按照惯例来说，想要脱离政府会是十分困难的,因为没有其他人生活在自然状态下。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

She says the original books written during the Depression served as an escape from difficult economic times.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

They will start out simple and, as usual, they will get progressively more difficult.

我们从简单的开始,我们照旧循序渐进慢慢加大难度

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Although it is inevitably slower and more difficult than any of us would wish, we are mobilizing all resources as fast as we possibly can."

VOA: special.2010.01.16

But before we dismiss Aristotle's account as insufferably inegalitarian and elitist, we have to ask a difficult question, not just of Aristotle, but more importantly of ourselves.

但在我们驳斥亚里士多德的论点之前,即令人无法忍受的不平等及精英者论点，我们必需要问一个艰难的问题，不只是关于亚里士多德，对我们更是重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

As Rosemary grew older, she became increasingly difficult to live with and supervise.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

And perhaps that is pastoral in a way, going back to what you said, that I do think of myself in many ways as doing pastoral counseling, particularly in the most difficult circumstances when there's been a crisis, a death, a serious accident.

也许某种意义上这像是种牧师与受众，回到你刚才说的，很多时候我觉得自己,就是作为一个牧师指导学生，尤其是在极其困难的情况下,比如出现了危机，伤亡，或者严重事故。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He says it will be difficult for Iraqi security forces to stop Sunni attacks, unless Sunnis themselves decide to stop them as they did in two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2009.08.22

They find it very difficult to grasp the world as another person might see it.

他们很难从他人的角度出发来认识世界

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Others are more difficult to identify and not as well known.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

Isn't it difficult to do that as someone majoring in engineering?

主修工程学的人做这个困难吗？

沟通很重要 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So it might be difficult to imagine anything twice as big.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

Milton's similes are notoriously difficult as you no doubt have already experienced.

弥尔顿的明喻众人皆知的,非常难懂，正如你们已经领教过的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In many ways for Aristotle as it is for every student of politics the most serious the most difficult issue one confronts is the problem of faction.

从很多方面看来，无论是对亚里士多德,还是每位政治系的同学而言,最令人最感严肃,与严重的问题,是派系的问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选