He would try to explain it this way when students asked for a top grade just for studying hard in chemistry class: What if a baseball player came to spring training and worked harder than all the others, but still could not play well.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

Because if they work any harder than that, then the other person is just going to slack off instead.

因为我们知道如果自己超额完成工作,其他人就可以少做点工作了

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

So it's harder and... But I mean, exams themselves are not much harder than what I expected them to be.

所以这难一点……但是考试本身没有比我想象的难多少。

来自西班牙的留学生 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It wasn't good enough today, so after the season I'm going to go home and rest a little bit and I'm going to work harder than ever,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

It's harder than you think, right, but that's the kind of thing that musicians, particularly percussion players, have to be able to execute.

比你想的要困难得多,但这就是音乐家,尤其是打击乐手所必须具备的能力

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

But the object that struck Jupiter in July is estimated to have been much smaller and harder to see than comet Shoemaker-Levy.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

I should be able to do nice bell-shaped curves, but it's harder than it looks standing up here; so that's your bell-shaped curve.

我还是挺擅长画钟型曲线的,但站着画真的不太容易,这就是钟型曲线

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

However,this is more difficult because it is harder to control the diets of people and because they live longer than other animals.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

So if you don't know that then, of course,you have to work harder than other people.

如果你还不知道这些,那你当然要比别人花更多功夫了

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Dirt may be harder to remove from some crops than from others.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

If you squeeze the trigger of a gun really hard and really fast, it doesn't fire any faster or harder than if you just squeezed it gently.

快速有力地扣动扳机,并不比你轻扣扳机,射出的更加快速或更加有力

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Ellen Davis, with the National Retail Federation, notes that smaller stores have been harder hit than large retailers.

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

Well, Wright himself described that difficulty of writing his autobiography, and these are the terms he used: I found that to tell the truth is the hardest thing on earth, harder than fighting in a war, harder than taking part in a revolution.

莱特自己描述了,自传写作的艰辛，他如是说：,“我发现说真话是世界上最难的事，比参加战争难，比参加革命难，如果尝试写自传。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The neighboring nation, Samoa,was harder hit. More than 130 people died there, and nine others in Tonga.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

It was, in some respects, for me anyway, it was harder than the immediate aftermath of 911, because 911 felt like an discrim event, like there was an attack, we recovered, there was a response.

就我个人而言，在某些方面，它比911后果还要严重，因为911像个能够辨别分析的事件，出现了一次袭击，我们恢复过来，我们有应对措施。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

"I want to study English harder and better than the year before and I hope the work and business is better than before.

VOA: standard.2010.02.14

But Roger Bannister continued to train and work hard, not harder than the rest of the runners, but as hard as the top runners in the world.

但Roger，Bannister坚持苦练，不比别的跑手练得更苦，但和世上别的跑手一样苦练。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The speakers on the platform took a harder line than that of their government, calling for revenge for the sinking of the South Korean ship.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

The worry is that those of us who are harder graders than average, if the information were published, would feel guilty and sort of ease up on our grading.

他们担心的是，我们这些更严格的评分者，在这类信息发表后，会因为内疚而稍稍把评分提高一些。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But selling the proposed budget on Capitol Hill became harder after Friday's report from the Congressional Budget Office, which projects significantly higher budget deficits than the administration estimates over the next decade, adding trillions of dollars to the national debt.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

You all could still do that if you decide too, but it's going to be harder for you than if you would have started when you were ten, so you're losing some potential around - along the way.

如果你想的话也许还可以,但会比起你从十岁开始努力,会更困难一些,因此你们在成长的路上失去了一些潜能

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

I actually thought it was hard to understand, just what was happening, the action part of the story. It might have been that I read it too quickly. Uh huh. Harder than "Menelaiad" to understand? No.

事实上，我认为它很难理解，就是到底发生了什么，即故事中的动作部分，也可能是我读得太快的缘故,所以不太理解罢，比《梅尼洛斯》更难懂吗，不是的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Russian kids sucked harder to hear Russian than they did to French.

相较于听到法语,俄罗斯的儿童则在听到俄语时,会更加用力的吮吸

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

To some degree, it's harder to imagine the worst thing than to statistically sort of figure out the middle band.

一定程度上，预测最坏的结果,要比以统计的方式预测出中间值更为艰难。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Shortly after I came here to Yale, and I started realizing that people thought I was a harder grader than most other Yale professors, I called the administration and asked, ?" "Do you have this sort of information?"

我刚来耶鲁没几天，就发现人们认为,我在评分上比大部分其他耶鲁教授更严格，我打电话问管理处，“你们是不是有这方面的信息“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Ulysses is no harder to understand than any other great classic.

尤利西斯》本质上也还是一个故事。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选