That kid was, he was struggling with his identity, trying to figure himself out.

那个孩年幼，纠结于自我认同，终日苦思自己到底是谁。

Recall the misery of the past and contrast it with the happiness of today.

忆苦思甜。

Scarlett thought hard but Thermopylae meant nothing to her.

想想温泉关吧！" 思嘉苦思冥想了半天也没弄懂" 温泉关" 是什么意思。

He has been puzzling over the decision for two days.

这个决定让他苦思了两天。

Scientists have been puzzling over how to transform surfaces for centuries.

几百年来，科学家们一直苦思冥想改变表面性质的方法。

There's a phrase from a book by Ben Hardy and Dan Sullivan called, Who Not How.

有一本由 Ben Hardy 和 Dan Sullivan 写的，叫做《用交流替代苦思冥想》。

Most of the stuff that you agonize thinking about, they pay no attention to.

大多数你苦思冥想的事情，他们都不会注意。

You're in your head, concentrating and cogitating all by yourself.

你独自一人在脑海中专心思考、苦思冥想。

I thought hard but I couldn't remember for sure.

我苦思冥想， 但我想不起来。

Long pause, the two men thinking hard.

长间的停顿， 两人苦思冥想。

He thought so hard his cheek muscles made little knots under his grayish skin.

他苦思冥想， 脸颊上的肌肉在他灰白的皮肤下起了一个个小疙瘩。

Byron always got like that when he couldn't crack a hustle.

拜伦苦思冥想也这样。

After that he did some hard thinking.

之后他做了一些苦思冥想。

The merchant thought long and hard about how to get more customers to his store.

商家苦思冥想如何让更多顾客光顾他的店。

As he puzzled over these thoughts, Whitestorm and Darkstripe pushed their way into the den.

正他苦思冥想这些想法，白风和黑条闯进了巢穴。

The smuggler had been thinking desperately.

走私犯苦思冥想。

Fishlegs hurried after Hiccup, who was now looking at the cavern's exit hole to the sea, thinking hard.

小鱼腿急忙追赶卡嗝，后者正看着洞穴通向大海的出口，苦思冥想。

As he sat one night, before tumbling into his trundle bed, meditating on the hardness of the times, a bright idea struck him.

有一天晚上，他在睡觉前苦思冥想，终于想出一个好主意。

Like you, I struggled with these concepts, but eventually, I mastered them, through hard work, resilience and a healthy dose of knuckle whacking.

我也曾和你们一样苦思这些概念，但最终我全部掌握了，正是通过不屑的努力和适量的打关节惩罚。

As he was reflecting in this wise, his eyes fell upon an immense placard which a sort of clown was carrying through the streets.

他正在这样苦思苦想的候，他的视线忽然落在一张很大的海报上，这张海报正由一个似乎是马团小丑的人物背着，在横滨的大街上走来走去。