"And I am grateful for their decision as well as all the Democrats who have worked so hard to make this reform a reality."

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

Not so much for technological advice, which is extremely hard to get "Does this business strategy make sense?"

他们不必给出技术建议，这很难,这种商业策略有意义吗“

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

it's very hard for the professors to schedule a lot of individual time for the people who can't make it.

教授很难为那些没法按时考试的考生另外安排时间。

临时抱佛脚？也做过 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But for the young who make up most of the population, learning this history has been hard to do - schools have up to now just not taught it.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

We are basically committed to each other for sex but it's very hard to make those relationships last a long time because we might not have anything in common, we might not share anything with each other, we might not trust each other, we are not particularly bonded to each other.

我们基本上只有激情的承诺,长时间维持这种关系很困难,因为可能双方没有任何共同点，没有共享的东西，我们可能互不信任，不是特别亲近。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"Iraq's future is in the hands of its own people, and Iraq's leaders must now make some hard choices necessary to resolve key political questions, to advance opportunity and to provide security for their towns and their cities,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.30

MIT tries really hard to make it affordable for everyone giving them a lot of financial aid

麻省理工努力让人人都上得起学，提供很多经济援助

开放式的课程？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人