I have learned to defend myself against what is hard; without knowing it, I have also learned to defend myself against what is soft and what should be easy.

我学会了在困难面前保护自己；在不知不觉中，我也学会了保护自己远离细腻事物和简单的事情。

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Finding hard evidence to support the thesis is not so easy.

找到有力的证据来支持这一论点并非易事。

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Sometimes to take the lead is easy, but to keep it is hard.

有时候，领先很容易，但要保持领先就很难了。

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But the Navajo homeland is harsh country, where it's hard to find good-paying jobs and all too easy to fall sway to alcoholism and despair.

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What did you learn about how easy or hard it is to keep track of what food intake is?

你从记录食物摄入过程中,学到了什么,记录饮食是难是易

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Frost is not after "easy gold" but rather hard-earned wages.

弗罗斯特不追寻这些轻易得来的金钱而是实在地挣钱。

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If it succeeds, it will prove a truth about the telecom business: Technology is easy, but the partnering is hard.

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You had said earlier that you thought writing was the hard part but that rewriting is easy.

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