He was a nice,pleasant young man. It was painful to see him stand there and give answers that were miracles of stupidity.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

When you lead the meditation, I think kneeling is fine, but for me it's really painful, not everybody can do that.

当进行冥想时，我觉得跪地可以接受，但确实感到疼痛，不是人人都可以坚持。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He had a painful excursion.

他有了一个充满磨砺的短途旅行。

It sounds like 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

If your friend does not seem to understand how painful your broken heart is, you may ask her to have a heart.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

Fate will permit no apocalypse before its time, before the necessary and painful steps that have to lead up to the Last Judgment.

命运在来之前不会允许人们去启示别人，必须要自己去经历必要而又痛苦的那几步,才能走向最终的审判。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Earlier this year, Tomohiko Hagino in Japan wrote to ask for information about a painful disease -- fibromyalgia.

VOA: special.2011.07.26

And at the same time, accepting the painful emotions are as much part of human nature as the wonderful emotions.

与此同时，也认同痛苦的情绪,和美好的情绪一样都是人性的组成。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The issues must be treated carefully, or they will be difficult and painful if an elected official has to deal with them.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

OK. Now, fortunately we're not going to start with Turing's six primitives, this would be really painful programming, because they're down at the level of, "take this value and write it onto this tape."

好了，现在，幸好我们能开始讲述,图灵的六个基本类型了，这会是非常痛苦的编程，因为它们只在这个阶段上，“拿到这个结果并写在这一卷磁盘上“

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He was a nice, pleasant young man. It was painful to see him stand there and give answers that were miracles of stupidity.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

Now, when the first chimpanzee hits the lever the second chimpanzee gets a painful electric shock, putting the first chimpanzee in a horrible dilemma.

当第一只黑猩猩拍杠杆时,第二只黑猩猩就会受到痛苦的电击，这样第一只黑猩猩就进退两难了。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The stock market crash marked the beginning of the Great Depression -- a long,slow,painful fall to the worst economic crisis in American history.

VOA: special.2011.02.17

The sun on the bright, beige countryside was painful.

在明亮的的、米黄色的乡村的，太阳痛苦不堪。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But it was painful to her family to see their deaf and blind child punished.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

you may remember the story from Derek Parfit about having the painful operation.

你们也许记得Derek，Parfit的故事,是关于痛苦的手术的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Currently, medicine for sleeping sickness requires a series of injections that are costly and painful.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

So much of the pathos of Satan's fallen condition involves his painful memory of that blissful state in heaven from which he had fallen.

很多撒旦堕落后的悲怆,夹杂了他憾失此前在天堂的幸福生活的,苦痛的回忆。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Freud believed that all the painful memories of childhood lay buried in the unconscious self.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

It's how quickly, how promptly we can recover from these painful emotions-- in other words, how strong our psychological immune system is.

区别在于他们能够多么迅速，多么快速地从痛苦情绪中恢复过来-,换言之，我们的心理免疫系统有多强。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

So some people say reading it is too painful and insulting for black children.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

that doing meditation actually literally transforms our brain, making us more susceptible to positive emotions and more resilient in the face of painful emotions.

多少人知道，冥想能转换我们的大脑思维，使我们更容易感染到积极情绪,在面对痛苦时更坚强。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

But the drug requires many painful injections several times a day for several weeks.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

I just want to float to the dining hall after-- " so much easier, so much less painful."

我只想下午时飘去餐厅-,更加容易，更少痛苦“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

But I only wanted to make his dismissal a little less painful for him.

VOA: special.2011.03.26

to name a few-- on the negative side,the painful side; wellbeing,satisfaction,joy,excitement,happiness on the other side which is the side of positive psychology studies.

这些消极和痛苦的方面;,幸福，满足，愉悦，兴奋，快乐,属于另一方面,也就是积极心理学研究的方面。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

He died June nineteenth from kidney failure and a rare and painful skin disorder.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

However, in our culture today, we don't give ourselves the permission to be human, the freedom to experience these painful emotions as well.

然而在当今的文化中，我们不准许自己为人，也没有体会痛苦情绪的自由。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

But while broken bones can be painful, they are generally not life-threatening.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

The people who got the painful shock instruction are more likely to find the confederate attractive.

得到痛击实验消息的受试者,更有可能要先助手很有魅力。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

If you are hurt, that is, in some sense, painful for me.

如果你受伤了，某种程度上我也会觉得痛。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选