She struggled hard to master her temper.

她竭力按住性子，不发脾气。

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I struggled hard against their influence, and my head began to ache.

我拼命试图挣脱这种影响，头疼得厉害。

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She is a perfectionist, and had struggled hard to make the Intruder the ship that it was.

她是完美主义者，为了建成“侵入者号”呕心沥血。

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Even in a nation of Euro-enthusiasts, which has struggled hard and successfully to take part in economic and monetary integration, such a question was not likely to send anyone rushing to the polls.

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If higher expenditure on public services comes to be seen as payday for public-sector workers, Labour will lose the reputation for prudent economic management which it struggled so hard to win in its early, parsimonious, years.

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While not doubting that the president has struggled long and hard with this, this seems to me a deliberate moment.

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