To be"hard up" is an English idiom meaning to lack money.

是英语中的一个习语，意为缺钱。

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To be "hard up" is an English idiom meaning to lack money.

是英语习语，意思是手头拮据。

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And he offers this advice once you have chosen the record you want to set: Train hard.Plan ahead.Be patient -- don't give up.

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Now if all we have to go on is just this semiotic system, it's going to be kind of hard to put up resistance to by the same token we'll say "yellow" means "pause," "green" means "go."

而从语义学角度分析，我们必须不能这么想,这样绿色自然就表示继续，黄色表示暂停“

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One figure? I don't know. I can't say. That's hard. Charles Darwin will be up there.

只选一个吗？不好说，这太难选了。查尔斯·达尔文肯定在其中。

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Well, obviously Florida and California are two states where one can ride 12 months a year but for motorcyclists in less temperate climes it can be hard hanging up your helmet until the vernal equinox.

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Science has given us many vital benefits, so many that they would be hard to sum up.

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Leading-edge boomers are also nearing retirement, which means their substantial portfolio losses will be hard to make up.

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