But the truth is that getting to that point had not been easy for him.

说真的，非能有今天真是不容易。

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Life in that home had not been easy. There had been times of food shortages, times when they had shivered at night for want of fuel.

生活在这个家中并不容易。有时会出现粮食短缺，有时他们会在夜间冻得发抖因缺少燃料。

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This would also explain their somewhat 'random' distribution in areas of the body which would not have been that easy to display had they been applied as a form of status marker.

这也解释了它们某种程度上在身体上的“无规律”分布。如果是作为身份象征的话，这样的分布并不容易展示出来。

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Lambert acknowledged it had not been easy for Ruddy to replace his highly rated predecessor.

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She also said it had not been easy marrying into the Kennedy family.

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King recently told the Los Angeles Times that while he had come to terms with his broader legacy, dealing with the past had not been easy.

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