Greek newspapers have spent the past week speculating on what further hardships citizens will face,including pension cuts, salary freezes and the prospect of job cuts.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

He leaves the city, he travels far and wide, he crosses these primeval seas and endures all sorts of hardships.

他离开了城市，去很远的地方，他穿过茫茫大海，旅途劳顿。

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How did you overcome the hardships in your life?

你是怎么战胜人生中的困难的？

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"These sanctions have caused tremendous hardships to Zimbabwe and her people."

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

There are a lot of human hardships that can be solved by diversifying portfolios.

很多生活上的困难,都可以通过分散投资来解决。

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President Obama said the current system has led the country to a breaking point, imposing hardships on middle-class Americans who struggle to pay for health care, who are unable to obtain it.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

It is also important to put these resources in places that help us cultivate capacity, the capacity to deal with these difficulties and hardships when they arise and they will arise.

同样重要的是，投入资源,帮助我们培养自身能力，应对困难和艰辛的能力,这些困难一直存在并会继续出现的。

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Saying the United States is the only advanced democracy and only wealthy nation that allows such hardships for millions of its people, the president said the time has come to put politics aside and solve the problem.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

If you think about what ancient food gathering habits used to be like, you see things like this where people are out gathering food that is growing naturally, and you can think about what would-- what sort of conditions this would create and what kind of hardships it would create.

如果你想知道古代食物采集的习惯,请看这张图,人类都在野外采集自然生长的食物,你可以设想到,条件有多恶劣,生存有多艰难

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President Obama told those gathered in the White House East Room that the story of America's women, like that of the United States itself, has peaks and valleys, but that ultimately it has been one of progress against hardships that women continue to confront.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

"I am sure she would have restated it, but if you look in the entire sweep of the essay that she wrote, what is clear is that she was simply saying that her life experiences will give her information about the struggles and hardships that people are going through, that will make her a good judge,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.30