They are a team that always seemed to eke out victory when the going got tough.

看起来他们总是一个能在困难中艰难取胜的团队。

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When I told a group of school children who displayed helpless behavior that a lack of effort led to their mistakes in math, they learned to keep trying when the problems got tough.

当我告诉一群表现出无助行为的学生说，是缺乏努力导致了他们数学上的错误，他们就学会了在问题变得棘手时继续尝试。

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The employers got tough with their workers.

老板对他们的工人采取强硬措施。

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And they'll say, 'Aha,the West has folded here when the going got just a little bit tough,".

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So we finally got tough and we got Paul Volker in there and central banks around the world all managed to get tough around that time and we killed inflation but it created a recession.

所以，我们最终强硬地实施,并且将保罗？沃尔克作为主席,世界各地的中央银行,全都在那段时期内严格的实施,最终我们消除了通货膨胀，却制造了经济衰退。

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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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It's got tough cuts, tough reforms, and asks more of the wealthiest Americans.

WHITEHOUSE: Weekly Address: Congress Must Act Now to Stop the Sequester

So if Scots are high up the league table for incompetence in managing major projects, they've got tough competition.

BBC: Scotland Doomed by Comic Economics

Romney's claim he "got tough" on methamphetamine dealers is questionable since a proposal to stiffen sentences never passed the Massachusetts Legislature.

CNN: Romney ad attacks Huckabee as soft on crime