Hard return, is to make others can see admit to your efforts.

辛苦的报答，就是让别人能看到承认到你的付出。

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Noticing the commotion, she reached into her purse for a handful of hard candies and offered them to the kids in return for their good behavior.

她注意到骚动，从钱包里掏出一把硬糖，给了表现好的孩子们。

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Once you have tasted the outdoor life in southern California, it's hard to return to Montana in winter.

一旦你体验过南加州的户外生活，再要回到蒙大拿过冬就会感到很难。

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"Many of these changes make it hard to return to a healthy weight, " he says.

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In general, PC games have always been hard to return to any store (with the exception of exchanging it for the same title).

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Adding inactivity to injury, this is especially true in locations where many people exercise accompanied to music, airplanes (hey, it's hard to return those seats to their upright positions), the New York City subway system, and the streets of cities other than Mountain View, CA. Indeed, most WiFi-friendly environments are also laptop-friendly and thus support access to not only Yahoo Music and its competitors, but high-quality free internet radio from last.fm, Slacker, and others.

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