Like the Obama Administration, Japan's new government ran hard against its predecessor's policies and put many of them under review when it took office.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

Now for now, its hard to argue that this is a good thing but it's a common thing.

现在，不好争论这是一个好事情,但这是一个通常的事情。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

It's post-Christian in the sense that it's hard to live in America without having some kind of exposure to Christianity and without seeing its influence on our society,on our politics, on our culture and our art,and that sort of thing.

一方面，生活在后基督教的美国不可能,不接触到基督教文化,不可能忽视它对社会，政治，文化，艺术等方面的影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

And the economy has been hit hard by the fall in the price of diamonds which make up one-third of its gross domestic product.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

Were you and the president and everybody else in the White House worked as hard as you could, but things just sort of run away, took on a life of its own.

你们在白宫,尽心尽力地工作,但形势却还是会失控吗，就像是自己有想法似的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

American accusations that its allies are not pulling their weight hit hard in France.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

The hard drive is where your PC stores most of its permanent data.

硬盘是你的PC存储永久数据的地方。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Because if you just have random bones lying around, it's hard for someone to come in and look at it and understand what the animal looked like in its entirety.

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

"Iraq's future is in the hands of its own people, and Iraq's leaders must now make some hard choices necessary to resolve key political questions, to advance opportunity and to provide security for their towns and their cities,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.30

Rural areas are largely untapped. "So the government needs to work hard to diversify its export commodities, export products, add more value by processing more, let's say agriculture production in the country and thereby create more jobs to help the economy grow faster."

VOA: standard.2010.06.02