Museums have been trying hard to shed their stuffy image.

博物馆一直努力改变自己沉闷的形象。

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She was trying hard to get up but fell once more.

她极力想站起来，但又摔倒了。

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His classmates said whatever he did, he could get quite good at it after trying hard for several years.

他的同学们称，无论他做什么，经过几年的努力，他都能做得很好。

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Would you want a doctor who got high marks in medical school just for trying really,really hard?

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comes from flawed reports of what people eat, because in order to know what people eat you have to ask them, and even if people are really trying hard to be truthful, it's not the easiest thing to do.

这些信息来自于关于人们饮食缺陷的报告,因为你必须询问人们,吃了什么,尽管人们会尽量实事求是,但这很难做到

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To use an ancient expression from the 1970's, which only John and I will appreciate, it's really hard to grok what that code is doing, to understand what it's trying to make happen.

我和约翰都会同意，70年代的一句话来概括，那就是很难理解编码的内容，以及它想要完成的工作。

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Western central bankers have been trying hard to convince the Chinese to let the yuan appreciate.

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Immigrant advocacy groups have been trying hard to attract non-Latino immigrants to their cause.

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But spokeswoman Danielle Rau says most growers are trying hard to follow the rules.

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