I know that he has tried hard; be that as it may, his work is just not good enough.

我知道他已经尽力了，尽管如此，他的工作仍不太理想。

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Now, you're a good fellow in many respects, and I don't want to be too hard on you.

现在，你在很多方面都是个好人，我不想对你太狠毒。

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To be a good doctor has always been a dream to me, and I will study hard to make sure that my dream will come true in the future.

成为一名医生一直是我的梦想，为了将来能实现梦想，我会努力学习。

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"They have not got their acts together. So I think the Swat operation has sent a very strong signal and if the government now starts an operation in even Waziristan, which is considered as a hard nut, I think it has good chances to succeed."

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And so what I'm really doing is inviting you to take a good, cold, hard look at death, and to face it and think about it in a way that most of us don't do.

那就是我要你们做的，认清，死亡的好和坏，面对它，然后思考它,用我们从没用过的方式。

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"This was my first real attempt to break the world record, I knew I was good, I had trained hard, " added Rudisha, whose father Daniel won silver for Kenya in the 4x400m at the 1968 Mexico Olympics.

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Earlier this year, I took a good hard look at my cable bill to see if it was time to cut the cord.

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"I don't think anybody's really been able to get a good hard count, but I would say it's probably in the range of 50 votes, " he said.

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