I've been assigning-- I've gotten some complaints from students that this book is tough going because there's so much information in it.

我一直指定...,有些学生向我抱怨说,这本书很难,因为信息量太大

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Let's say that your father is going through tough times.

假设你的父亲正在熬过一段艰难的时期。

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The suggestion Plato seems to be making by making Thrasymachus blush is, despite all of his tough talk, that he's not as tough as he appears to be, as he wants to think of himself to be.

柏拉图的暗示似乎是透过,让，Thrasymachus，感到困窘，先不管他先前那些顽固的言论，展现出他其实不像表现出的那般顽固，不像像他自己认为的那样顽固。

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- She said, "When I was dating my husband-- this is thirty years ago-- we were having a tough time.

她说，，“我和我老公拍拖那会儿-,那是30年前的事儿了-,有段时间关系很恶劣。

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He had to be a tough businessman to arrive where he is.

足够强硬的人才能达到他的位置

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This is a tough exercise especially for guys, but please bear with me.

特别对男生来说是个困难练习，但请忍耐。

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One that seems to be in fashion these days, although you never know how long the fashion lasts, is: internal uprisings that somehow these monarchical areas, when life got tough, the people must have risen up against them.

有一个理论现在很流行,虽然不知道流行了多久,那就是认为,这些王国中起义的内部原因是,当民生困苦时,人们就必然奋起反抗

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Although this kind of talk about "armed prophets always win" is characteristic of Machiavelli, he likes this kind of tough talk.

虽然这种关于,“武装先知总是赢“的言论“,是马奇亚维利的特色，但他真的喜欢这种顽固的论调。

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