The spade strikes something hard, sending a shudder through his spine.

铁锹撞击到坚硬的东西，他的脊梁骨一阵颤动。

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Don't think of saving money as something hard.

不要认为省钱是件难事。

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He thinks he has discovered something wonderful since then: to make a boy want something, all you have to do is make that something hard to get!

从那以后，他觉得自己发现了一件神奇的事：要让一个男孩想要什么东西，你只需要让那个东西变得很难得到！

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"Apart from my mother, everybody laughing, she would say if you really want something, you work hard, you take advantage of opportunity, you never give up,you find a way.

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Supposed to be something hard.

本来就该很困难。

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One can never come before something that, of course, has already happened, but this fiction of an impossible firstness is something that Milton is working very hard to accomplish here.

一个人绝不可能先于，已经发生的事情，但弥尔顿在这里就是要,努力达成这种不可能的先知。

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"It's something hard to contend with, but it happens and is part of the game, " he said.

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Too often we are tempted to throw in the towel and give up on doing something hard.

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In an old industrial city like Glasgow, Hadid has taken something hard and workaday and made it fluid and inviting.

NEWYORKER: Lady Zaha