It wasn't so business-like that it was uncomfortable or difficult or surprising.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

And I do that very precisely because it'll teach you a little bit about how easy or difficult it is to do it and what kind of information you retrieve from a dietary assessment.

我这样要求是因为,这能教给你,做评估的难易程度,以及你们能从饮食评估中得到何种信息

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

But it's difficult, because you have to go there like four or five times a week.

但是要坚持学习真实太难了，你一周得去四、五次。

I used to实战 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And if one person dies, the other person may have a difficult time claiming the couple's money or property.

VOA: special.2011.05.23

I don't want to have to deal with heat escaping to the outside environment in a way that might be difficult or complicated to measure or calculate.

我可不想处理跑到,环境中去的热量，那测量或,计算起来会非常麻烦和复杂。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

I did not want them to be difficult or to get in my hair while I was working on the computer.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

That's a quite difficult argument to pin down does it work or does it not work.

这个论证很难确定,是不是说得通。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

This makes it more difficult for students to buy papers from companies that some call "plagiarism mills" or "essay mills."

VOA: special.2009.04.23

And this is actually, in general, why it's sometimes difficult to teach or to tell stories because we constantly overestimate how much other people know.

概而论之，这就是为什么有时候我们很难能讲一个故事,因为我们总是认为别人什么都猜到了。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The issues must be treated carefully, or they will be difficult and painful if an elected official has to deal with them.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

Imagine how much power it takes to drive an artificial heart, so you've got to have a battery or some way of generating power continuously to operate that and that makes it difficult to think about implantable and so that's a really good example of Biomedical Engineering.

驱动人工心脏所需要的能量是难以想像的,所以需要电池或者是某种持续发电装置,来给人工心脏提供能量,这就增加了人工心脏的植入难度,这是很好的生物医学工程的例子

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Studies have found that nicotine can be as difficult to resist as alcohol or the drug cocaine.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

Can you tell us about the most difficult assignment or paper that you've had to do?

你能给我们讲一讲你最难的一次任务或者论文吗？

考试考砸了怎么办 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Even today, it is difficult to walk or ride through the park.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

Tests show in the nineteenth century that people could type four or five times as fast as they could handwrite and there's no ambiguity because it's very clear what key was struck; whereas, handwritten--fast handwriting becomes impossible to read--or difficult.

通过测试显示，在19世纪,人们打字的速度是手写的4至5倍,而且也不存在字迹模糊的问题,因为键盘敲击出来的非常清晰;,而手写，尤其是快速手写根本无法阅读,或者说是很难阅读。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So we say a difficult or impossible job is like herding cats.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

I think now we can see why these lines about the autumnal leavesare so difficult for us to incorporate into a moral reading or a theological reading of the poem.

我们现在可以看到为什么,这些关于秋天的落叶的句子如此难以,与对这首诗的道德或者神学的理解相结合。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"Many mothers deliver at home in sub-Saharan Africa and it's very difficult for them to get to a hospital or clinic which may be miles away in that time period.

VOA: special.2010.05.24

But then also a little bit about your history, where you come from, some of your experiences which have helped you or informed your opinions on this very difficult issue that the entire world really is spending a lot of time trying to work on.

然后再谈谈你们各自的经历，你们从何而来，谈一些你们自己的经历,一些帮助过你们，或形成了你们,就这个复杂问题的观点,这个全世界都在投入大量时间试图解决的问题。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish."

VOA: special.2009.07.08

And, in a rare moment of sort of personal self-reflection or self-reference, he notes somewhat drolly that the novelty of his ideas will make it difficult for them to find an audience.

虽然他很少对自己的思想,进行自我反思或自我参照，但他还是自嘲地写道,那些新奇的思想会让它们,很难找到读者。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Professor Yoshino explains. "Shakespeare calls this a problem of ocular proof, the idea that we need to see evidence before we believe in it -- and that,oftentimes, when metaphysical questions of guilt or innocence are difficult for us to answer, we have a tendency to reduce them to questions that pertain to physical evidence.

VOA: special.2011.06.06

Let's say in Germany or France, where it's more difficult for foreigners, I guess,

比如说德国或者法国，对于外国人来说呆在那些地方可能会更困难些，

来自世界各地的朋友 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

They do not have Thai citizenship or language skills - making it difficult for them to enroll in Thai schools.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

But you might have to,also, refer to a Psalm over here or to another passage over here. And it's too difficult if you're unraveling scrolls and everything.

但你也许还要查阅，诗篇或者另一段文字,而解卷展轴太麻烦了。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Some women find it difficult or embarrassing to request a prescription from their doctors or to get the medication in time.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

If I can just have it there before me, that is a very difficult and derivative intellectual act, and it cannot be understood as primordial or primitive.

仅是面对着它，对于思维来说非常困难，并且这不能被理解为是原始的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Telling the difference between a regular commuter and an attacker is difficult on camera or in person.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

It's very difficult to be happy if we are experiencing severe depression or anxiety.

要快乐并不容易,如果我们感觉很压抑或焦虑。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

or places miles away, maybe in Timbuktu or whatever, who find it difficult to get educational materials from the local university or whatever, can watch certain lectures from Yale on the web.

或者更遥远的国度,像廷巴克图,他们可能在当地大学,不容易得到这样的教育资源,他们就可以到耶鲁网站观看这些视频

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选