The government is introducing tougher measures to combat crime.

政府正在推行更强硬的手段来反击犯罪。

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The government is proposing tougher punishments for officials convicted of corruption.

该政府正在提议对被判贪污罪的官员予以更严厉的处罚。

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Presidential adviser Paul Volcker, a former Federal Reserve chairman, has suggested that Mr.Obama get tougher on big financial firms.

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Small-cap stocks are tougher to price than large-cap stocks, so there's a 4.7% differential, first to third quartile.

小盘股比大盘股更难定价,第一和第三个四分位数的差距有4.7%

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

We try to trick people, for instance, into believing that we're tougher, smarter, sexier, more reliable, more trustworthy and so on, than we really are.

比如，我们总是试着去欺骗他人，使他人相信我们比实际更加,强壮，聪明，性感，更加可靠或是更加值得信赖等等。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The problem for us now is that picking the eventual winner will be even tougher.

BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Titles collide for Aventis Prize

Simmons favors shares of the technology and drilling providers needed to poke wells in smaller, tougher fields.

FORBES: Crude Cassandra

The U.S., where Marriott Management Services and Aramark were entrenched, was much tougher to conquer.

FORBES: At your service