The talks had been hard going at the start.

会谈在开始时是艰难的。

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They worked hard to give their children a good start in life.

他们力争为孩子们奠定一个良好的基础。

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If you find it hard to start a talk, you can say something nice about people around you.

如果你发现很难开口，你可以对你周围的人说些好话。

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"So when foreign companies start negotiating with local Chinese suppliers, they really press hard on the prices offered by those Chinese suppliers."

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It's very hard to start an insurance company because you've got to meet the requirements of all fifty regulators.

开办保险公司是非常不容易的,因为你必须同时满足五十个州的监管要求

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And this is because as you start writing--saving files to your hard drive, what happens is you might save this file here, then this one, then this one, then this one, but very reasonably you might go back eventually and delete this one.

这是因为当你开始对硬盘驱动器进行读写时,你可以保存一个文件到磁盘的某处，然后再一个，再一个，又一个，最后你可能回到这,并删除这一个文件。

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As a result, voters need to start asking hard questions about what we want and need in a Supreme Court nominee.

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As cancer drug prices continue to soar, he says doctors and patients need to start making hard choices about what society is willing to pay for.

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This is where change gets hard, when you start going after the real hard things that have been holding us back for so long.

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