It's a tough category this year. The other nominees are John Fogerty, Prince,Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young.

VOA: standard.2010.01.24

I've been assigning-- I've gotten some complaints from students that this book is tough going because there's so much information in it.

我一直指定...,有些学生向我抱怨说,这本书很难,因为信息量太大

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It's tough, but if you work overnight you can do it.

这可能很困难，但你要是通宵熬夜的话，你是可以完成的。

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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

It doesn't matter what's your feeling, just tough out, be a man.

自己什么感受不重要，只要撑住，像个男子汉。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"And it's a tough mission, but I think it is an attainable mission as long as we take the time to make sure that the mission is out there and laid out pretty well.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Yes,it's difficult. It's tough. It's unfair.

是的，那很困难，艰辛，不公平。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

So it's a very,very competitive, tough market."

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

It's, because sometimes it's generally tough at first,

学习语言最一开始的时候总会很困难，

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I really did. I mean,sure, maybe we could do it again, but it's tough I mean the amount of money time and effort that goes into these things puts a huge strain on the city and the resources, so I hope we go for it again but I think it's hard,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.02

So it's a tough economy and you'd say, "Well geez, I want to do a startup. Is there going to be an investment out there? Well geez, I want to sell to customers and they're going to need to buy equipment to do things, or geez I want to appeal to advertisers, and there's got to be a consumer demand out there."

因此经济愈发不景气，你们会说“天哪，我想要卷土重来,会有人给我投资吗？,我想向人们出售产品,他们会需要买些设备来做事的，哦天哪，我想向广告商招标，总会有消费者需求的“

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

so right now, it's very tough.

所以就目前来看，这是很艰难的。

建筑学专业教授 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But it's pretty tough.

但这真的很难。

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Either there will be nobody there or more likely there will be not a very big population, and it's not very tough, and they could be easily brushed aside.

所以要么那个地方没有人烟,要么就是人口稀少的部落,并不是很顽强,很容易就能被军队驱逐

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

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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It's a tough course.

这是一门很难学的课程。

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