Despite great suffering, however, the people of Leningrad refused to surrender.

尽管忍受着极大困，列宁格勒的人民绝不投降。

The brave soldiers did their duty, careless of dangers and discomforts.

勇敢的士兵尽忠职守，危险和困毫不在乎。

It was on these streets where I witnessed the power of faith, and the quiet dignity of working people in the face of struggle and loss.

就在这些街区，我见证了工人阶级面临困和失落时表现出来的信仰的力量和平静的尊严。

In spite of all these trials and tribulations, Atlanta's ten thousand population had grown to double that number during the war. Even the blockade had added to Atlanta's prestige.

纵然有这么多考验和困，亚特兰大原来的一万人口在战争时期还是翻了一番，甚至连封锁也增加了亚特兰大的声望。

Short of the impossible, as Yeats put it, the satisfactions we get from a lifetime depend on how high we choose our difficulties.

正如叶芝所言，除却某些不可能的情形，我们人中所获取的满足皆取决于我们在多高的境界中选择 我们所愿意面的艰难困。

More difficult, in the moment, is discerning precisely how these lean times are affecting society's character.

这个时候，更难区分清楚这些艰难困是如何影响社会国民性格的。

In the midst of this hardship, we have seen the best of America shine through.

在这些艰难困中，我们看到了美国最好的一面。

These admittedly are the minor hardships of war, especially when we pause to consider that in many parts of the world, starvation prevails.

以上所举，殆为战争中之轻微困；若一念及世界上许多地方尚有饥馑流行，则更觉上述困之为轻微。

Scrooge felt sad, because he could see how poor the Cratchits were.

斯克罗奇很伤心，因为他能看到克拉特基特的困惨况。

Born to a nobleman but raised in poverty from a very young age following the untimely death of his father, Confucius developed what would become a lifelong sympathy for the suffering of the common people.

虽然出身贵族， 孔子从小就在很困的环境中，他的父亲英年早逝，因此，孔子于身世艰的人们有着很强烈的同理心。

He lived more poorly than an artisan. He worked harder.

作为一个艺术家，他的比任何其他艺术家都更困。他工作得比其他艺术家也更艰。

Iranians, long-used to hardships, say relief can't come soon enough.

长期以来习惯于艰难困的伊朗人表示，救济不会很快到来。

And denying families that security is just plain cruel. We’re a better country than that. We don’t abandon our fellow Americans when times get tough – we keep the faith with them until they start that new job.

拒绝为这些家庭提供基本保障带来的痛是残忍的。我们应该可以做的更好。我们不能看着我们的同胞经受困而遗弃他们，我们要始终与他们同心同德，直到他们找到新的工作。

Abraham Lincoln overcomes a difficult childhood, depression, the death of two sons, and constant ridicule during the Civil War to become arguably our greatest president ever.

亚伯拉罕·林肯战胜了童年的艰难困、绝望沮丧、丧失两子之痛以及内战中纷至奋来的嘲弄，最终成为典国历史上无可擊辩的最伟大的总统。

On the contrary, when it comes to finding answers to the deepest questions of life, especially in the face of hardship and suffering, this task can feel quite impossible and even lead to an existential crisis.

相反，在找寻命中最深层问题的答案时，尤其在面艰难困时，这项任务会变得难以实现，甚至导致存在主义危机。

And not only do the refugees live in very dramatic circumstances inside those countries, but the local communities themselves are suffering, because salaries went down, because there are more unemployed, because prices and rents went up.

在这些国家，不仅难民在极端困的环境中，当地居民的也十分艰辛，这是由于工资降低，由于失业率上升，由于物价和租金上涨。

There is an awful lot that is already going, but we'll learn just an enormous amount from what we did today and when we get all that data back that will be a big deal for us.

我们已经经历了许多艰难困, 但我们会从今天的失败中汲取很多教训，而当所有数据返回到我们手中我们意味着很多。

We decided we weren't willing to stand for that and we filed suit against the state of Ohio and that ended up going all the way to the Supreme Court where we won.

我们决定绝不支持这一点，我们向俄亥俄州提起诉讼，我们一路艰难困，直到走到获得胜利的地方----最高法院。

'Hudson it is, sir, ' said the seaman. 'Why, it's thirty year and more since I saw you last. Here you are in your house, and me still picking my salt meat out of the harness cask.'

'我正是赫德森，先，'这个水手说道，'喂，从我上次见到你，三十多年过去了。你现在已安居在你的家园里，而我仍于困之中。'

We've read over the last two days of all of these difficult hardships that astronauts have to go to just to be able to live in space.

过去两天我们了解到，宇航员为了能在太空中存，必须经历种种艰难困。