"The job market is still very difficult. We are seeing layoffs continue, not at the heavy pace we saw at the beginning of the year, but they certainly have not abated,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.05

He says, oh it's a very simple question; it's not difficult to answer.

他答道,这问题太简单了,一点儿都不难回答

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That's a very difficult challenge in the Senate right now. It's not looking very good these days,

目前这在参议院是很大的挑战。现今的形势看上去不容乐观。

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Dr.Lepora says she will probably return to MSF, because she says once she learned how to be effective in a crisis situation, she finds it very difficult not to act when another crisis comes up.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

If it were all the things that it's not, or if it were identical to all the things that somehow or another it's not, then I would be in a very difficult situation because I wouldn't have any means of knowing it in particular.

如果一件事就是它自身的反面，或者和其他的事物没有区分之处,那么我们，就很难认识它,因为我们没有办法认识它。

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The other is that some places where the disease occurs the governments are not stable, or there might be civil unrest or civil wars and that makes it very difficult to orchestrate giving vaccines when there's other things happening in the country that are of more immediate concern.

另一个原因是,一些疾病发生地区,当地的政局不那么稳定,或者有动乱和内战,当在一个国家内发生许多,突发应急事件的时候,疫苗的分派发放会变得非常困难

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