And sometimes the advice that follows can be painful,too.

VOA: special.2010.08.11

These are difficult lines physically to read, and they may very well be the most painful lines in the entire poem from an emotional perspective.

从情感的角度看待整首诗，这几行比较难懂,读起来也比较费力。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

OK. Now, fortunately we're not going to start with Turing's six primitives, this would be really painful programming, because they're down at the level of, "take this value and write it onto this tape."

好了，现在，幸好我们能开始讲述,图灵的六个基本类型了，这会是非常痛苦的编程，因为它们只在这个阶段上，“拿到这个结果并写在这一卷磁盘上“

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Bad teeth can be painful -- and worse.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

However, in our culture today, we don't give ourselves the permission to be human, the freedom to experience these painful emotions as well.

然而在当今的文化中，我们不准许自己为人，也没有体会痛苦情绪的自由。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The issues must be treated carefully, or they will be difficult and painful if an elected official has to deal with them.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

But before he can actually be made present at the actual event of the Nativity, he has to endure something painful and obviously momentous: "from out his secret Altar toucht with hallow'd fire."

但是要想真正能在,基督降生时出现，他不得不忍受一些痛苦，而且是巨大的痛苦：,“从神秘的祭坛外碰到圣火“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It would be difficult, even painful,to do so.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

He said if North Korea would not conform to international norms, "painful" sanctions would be needed to end the nuclear program.

VOA: standard.2009.05.30