It was hard work. The wet clothes were heavy, and the soap had lye in it.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

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

Parking was hard to get in the beginning because it's kind of a lousy system.

一开始停车位不好找，因为这个系统很差劲。

开车上学 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It was hard for him to fully understand what he saw in her expression.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

It was hard to piece all of this stuff together.

这个解释稍微有点难理解

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

So it was hard to keep animals away from crops.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

So they were quite amused that it was a woman that was speaking to them and telling them about how hard life was, doing that kind of work.

而之后却惊奇地发现,跟他们交谈的是个女人,这让孩子们感到很有趣，也就对这些工作越来越感兴趣。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

It was hard and difficult land.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

For instance in the past, we had that silly little program for computing the average of some quizzes and it was actually a pretty bad implementation because I had essentially hard coded in the number of quizzes.

比如在以前，我们做了一个,计算平均数的程序,这是一个相当挫的实现,因为我硬编码了测试的数字。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

(Sound) Kellerman has tried to pursue both a singing and acting career, but she says it was hard and her acting career suffered.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

How hard did you find it to figure out what food it was to begin with?

你认为选择从哪种食物下手会有多难

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"And to me that was such an illogical conclusion that it was hard to believe."

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

Everyone's looking really like this was hard, but it can't be that hard.

看大家的表情好像是非常难的样子,其实没那么难

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"It was hard to be away from home and away from the family."

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

We respnded aggressively, very aggressively on a lot of different occasions, and it was the kind of crisis that is just hard to keep control of. Ultimately we did.

我们的应对措施很强势，非常强势,在很多情况下都是如此，这次危机是,很难控制的，但最终我们做到了。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

It was hard for me to believe,"

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

Well, it was not very hard for me to draw this red blood cell here, it's just an oval, and one reason I draw it like an oval, is that that's basically what it looks like if you look at it.

我可以很容易的画出,一个血红细胞,就画个椭圆足矣,因为它看上去就是这个样子的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Jack London's many stories truthfully explained just how hard it was to be a gold seeker in eighteen ninety-seven.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

In Renaissance Italy they started writing insurance policies-- I read one of the insurance policies, it's in the Journal of Risk and Insurance-- and they translate a Renaissance insurance policy and it's very hard to understand what this policy was saying.

在文艺复兴时期的意大利,人们开始编写保单,我看过其中一份,刊登在《风险和保险杂志》上,他们翻译了一份文艺复兴时期的保单,但是很难理解那份保单到底想说什么

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Rudolf found it hard to believe that there was someone in the world who did not know what violin was.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

And he was working out really hard and he prepared for it.

为这个比赛，他很勤奋地锻炼，做了精心的准备。

You look 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"I mean it's hard to even understand how biology was a science as we would recognize it today.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

We know for sure Greeks and barbarians, and everybody came to Delphi, and when you came to Delphi and you were going to consult the it was hard, there were a lot of people, a long line, so there was a waiting issue.

我们可以肯定希腊人和蛮族人,都去了特尔斐,当人们到了特尔斐时,就会去请示神谕,这事情很难做,因为人非常多,会有很长的队伍,因此等待是个大问题

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It was for the way she looked, not for how good she was or how hard she worked.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

Was the story hard to follow? Was it self-contradictory, and in what ways? Anything? Just don't even be polite, just throw it right out there. Yes?

有没有什么地方不连贯？或者自相矛盾？,有何矛盾？有吗？说出来，现在，在这里，好吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The Canadian government knew how hard it was to live in the western part of the country.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

And the problem, in 1968 it was very hard to build a barricade across the Boulevard St. Michel, which was built by Hausmann at this time.

而在一九六八年,在圣米歇尔大道上,构筑街垒都是很困难的,那条大道就是豪斯曼建造的

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Both candidates campaigned hard. It was clear to everyone that the vote would be close.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

Was it hard to adjust to this school as a transfer student?

作为转校生，要适应这所学校困难吗？

留学生的适应期 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

What the mad scientist did,in effect was wipe out the hard drive, put in the other programs from the Shelly Kagan computer, but it's still the very same computer.

疯狂科学家所做的实际上是,清理硬盘，输入来自Shelly，Kagan电脑的其他程式，但电脑还是那台电脑。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选