The country had suffered a serious economic depression the year before, and jobs were difficult to find.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

Very difficult problems, but in my judgement, all solvable if we generate the country in the kind of bipartizan political cooperation and political courage that will be necessary to fix them.

这些问题很不容易解决，但我认为,不是不能解决，只要我们,以这种两党制的合作形式治理国家,还要有治理它们的政治勇气。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

I think it's actually overblown that the, the top universities in this country are so difficult.

我觉得其实顶尖大学的课程难这一点是被夸大了。

对于赞助入学的看法 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He hoped he had made the country understand one thing: the great need to forget hatred and bitterness in the difficult time of re-building that would follow the war.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

The other is that some places where the disease occurs the governments are not stable, or there might be civil unrest or civil wars and that makes it very difficult to orchestrate giving vaccines when there's other things happening in the country that are of more immediate concern.

另一个原因是,一些疾病发生地区,当地的政局不那么稳定,或者有动乱和内战,当在一个国家内发生许多,突发应急事件的时候,疫苗的分派发放会变得非常困难

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

That could put Greece in the high risk investment category, making it very difficult for the country to borrow money.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

Determining Muse's true age is difficult because birth certificates are rare in Somalia,a country which has not had a functioning government for nearly two decades.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

"You are helping us to build a cleaner, brighter future and a stronger more prosperous economy and my administration and our country will support you in that difficult work,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

The country is large and travel is difficult and time consuming.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

"They said,without this service, NGOs [non-governmental organizations and agencies will be unable to reach operation areas in the east and south of the country, and it is an area that is particularly insecure and difficult,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.02

A newly released history of 20th Century Russia, written by a team of 45 scholars and edited by historian Andrei Zubov, includes a statement that much of the country's recent past is painfully difficult to study, which is why many refuse to do so.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

He says the process of sorting through those areas, which include sites around the country,but concentrated in the mountainous northern areas, will be a long and difficult one, though it is work that needs to be done in the name of the victims' families.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18