But a few verses later it's clear that the poet isn't really drowning: this is a metaphor for his difficult situation.

但是随后的几首诗证明了，诗人并没有真正的溺水：,这里的水象征着困境。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

STUDENT: It is very difficult for me to draw graphs on the computer.

学生：,我不太会用电脑画这些图。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

As you have no doubt experienced, this is a dense and difficult poem, so please reread it innumerable times for Wednesday's class, and in addition to that do the other readings assigned.

你们肯定也觉得了，这首诗很复杂很难懂，所以要一遍一遍的重复读，准备好周三的课，也要读布置的其他材料。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In many ways for Aristotle as it is for every student of politics the most serious the most difficult issue one confronts is the problem of faction.

从很多方面看来，无论是对亚里士多德,还是每位政治系的同学而言,最令人最感严肃,与严重的问题,是派系的问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Now the question is "how does it expand" and "why is it so difficult for us to understand, accept, assimilate and live according to the fact that we can make a difference, if we understand that what we need to understand is how change happens.

问题是“它如何扩大“,以及为什么我们难以理解，我们能够做出改变这个事实,并接受，被同化以及据此生活，如果我们能了解我们需要理解的,是改变如何发生。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

This makes it difficult you could say and this is Aristotle's point I think this makes it difficult for the philosopher to be a good citizen of any actual regime.

可以这么说，这让它变得很难搞,而这也是亚里士多德的重点,我认为这让哲学家很难成为好公民,无论身处那一种现行政体中。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But in citing the power of what she claims to be this Puritan bogey, Virginia Woolf really suddenly reveals, I think, how difficult it is even for her to shut out entirely the real -or it might just be the bogus--power of John Milton.

但是通过指出这她称之为清教徒式的妖言的力量，佛吉尼亚·伍尔夫的确突然间向人们展示了，我想，即使是她，想要完全抵御弥尔顿的切实存在的力量,-也有可能仅仅是蛊惑人的妖言--是非常困难的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选