They were sentenced in June to face twelve years of hard labor for illegally entering North Korea.

VOA: special.2009.08.08

But,it's hard,if you're fourty-seven years, your job is a pretender to the throne, it's difficult.He had a hard time getting around.

但是,如果你要花四十七年,去争夺王位,是很不容易的,他做得很艰苦

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

It's great idea with a lot of hard work and then you work at it for year, two years, three years, four years, five years, six years, seven years, eight, nine, 10.

勤奋的工作，一年两年，三年,有或者更多，甚至10年，是很好的想法。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

The result is a container with a hard surface that will last for many years.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

Exactly, so you might have been thought especially in years past to defragment, so to speak, your hard drive once in a while.

你可能认为需要进行,碎片整理这种操作，也可以说硬盘驱动器有时需要你这么做。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Walking through these historic areas, visitors today might find it hard to believe that a deadly storm swept through the city over four years ago.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

There's been a lot of work done on these over the years, but in fact, it's pretty hard to invent a good hash function. So my advice to you is, if you want to use something was a hash, go to a library. Look up a good hash function.

已经做过了很多的尝试和努力,但是事实是，很难发明出一个好的哈希函数,所以我给你们的建议是,如果你们想使用哈希功能,到函数库中查找一个好的哈希函数。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

During his seventy-two years he was one of America's most hard-working musicians.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

One reason it's been harder to identify stem cells is that they're so rare; the other reason is that it's hard to identify the characteristics of them and it's taken many years to work this out.

干细胞难以识别的原因之一是,这些细胞很少,另一个原因就是,干细胞的特征性蛋白难以识别,我们花了好多年去解决这个问题

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

After years of hard work, Hank Williams had become a star.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

His years of hard work paid off.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

They were given 10 years at hard labor. Defense attorneys for several of the defendants said they plan to appeal the sentences.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

It seems hard to believe that it had been 62 years since the Americans had won Olympic gold in the four-man bobsled.

VOA: standard.2010.02.28

On Monday,a Sri Lankan court sentenced Tissainayagam to 20 years of hard labor for causing "communal disharmony".

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

The Asia-Pacific travel industry is on the rise after two years of hard times caused by soaring fuel prices and the global economic slump.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

"Even eight years later, it is hard to believe how people disrespect this day,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

He called the document a great achievement, after years of hard work.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Yettaw was facing seven years of hard labor for an uninvited visit to Aung San Suu Kyi's house where she has been detained for most of the last two decades despite international pressure for her release.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

Damascus has steadfastly denied the charges. Hilal Kashan, professor of political science at the American University of Beirut, thinks that the Hezbollah-led opposition scored a big victory with the general's release and could win the parliamentary elections because of it:"The opposition is using the release of the 4 senior officers as a moral victory, and says for the past 3 years and 8 months, four officers were jailed for no reason, whatsoever and they are coming hard on the Lebanese legal system and the process the Lebanese government, and they say this is the beginning,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.30