Then,a hard cast may be put around the area of the break to hold the bone in place while it heals.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

So that's a shot fired across the bow against the author because it's Barthes' supposition that the author isn't maybe even quite an author function because that function may be hard to identify in a discrete way among myriad other functions.

因而这是对作者的警告,因为巴特推测,作者可能甚至都不是功能性的,因为这种功能可能很难通过分离的方式,在很多其他功能中被辨认出来。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

When you go into a restaurant now, unless you want to go look at a board on the wall or get a pamphlet that may be hard to find, or go to the website, it's going to be pretty hard to know what you're eating in those foods.

现在当我们去餐馆吃饭时,除非看一看墙上的菜单板,或者是去翻往往很难找到的宣传册,再或者去网站查看,否则很难知道,我们在进餐时到底摄入了些什么成分

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"As hard as it may be to sustain in these economic times, your commitments have never been more needed, they have never been more inspiring,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

And I also want to point out, it's guaranteed pretty much you may or may not be able to see, sometimes it's hard to see that one that's getting near the UV end of our visible spectrum. So we won't worry if we can't see that.

我要指出的是，我可以保证你们,但你们可能会看不到，有时候很难看到,这个可见光谱边缘接近紫外光地方的这根谱线,所以看不到也不用担心。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

And even among those that quote,unquote may be hungry or poor, it's quite often viewed as 'they deserved it, they are not hard workers, it's not my problem,'".

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

Now it could be that you're hungry but you're working hard, and so you may not get your food for an hour until after you're hungry.

现在你很饿,但是你必须努力工作,直到一小时后才能吃东西

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选