"It was really tough but I will try to come again and maybe I will get it on the next try."

VOA: standard.2010.07.31

So we finally got tough and we got Paul Volker in there and central banks around the world all managed to get tough around that time and we killed inflation but it created a recession.

所以，我们最终强硬地实施,并且将保罗？沃尔克作为主席,世界各地的中央银行,全都在那段时期内严格的实施,最终我们消除了通货膨胀，却制造了经济衰退。

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Wasn't it quite tough to get into that course in UCLA?

能进到UCLA学这门课很难吧？

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"I don't want to get people's hopes up and they get so profoundly disappointed it is going to be tough, but nothing is impossible."

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

They have to pay--the premium has to cover the costs, so it was tough to get someone to buy life insurance even though they really needed it--it was such a good idea for them.

因为保费必须要超过保险公司的成本,因此,尽管寿险很好,人们也需要它,但是真正要说服人们购买,却是很困难的

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It's really been in the wake of the al-Mabhouh thing that the talk has really translated into concrete action and some of these governments have really started to get very tough on RIM, the company behind BlackBerry.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

I rather suspect if J. J. hadn't gotten his Nobel, it probably would have been tough for Rutherford to get one since some of these guys stood on the committees.

我认为如果J。J没有得到诺贝尔奖，那么这也会是一件很困难的事,对卢瑟福来说的话,因为他们中的一些人和委员会的是一致的。

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but it's, it's like tough to get an A.

但是想得到A级的成绩，简直是太难了。

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