But how about a little reverse psychology? Playing hard-to-get is known to be more effective than begging.

但是用点逆反心理怎么样？大家都知道玩欲擒故纵要比请求更加管用。

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It is hard to get hold of guns in this country.

在这个国家很难弄到枪。

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It's been hard to get a steady fix on what's going on.

一直很难对正在发生的事情有一个清楚可靠的了解。

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Instead of hard labor to go get food all it requiresis a little drive-in to the window.

和先前辛苦劳作以获取食物不一样,取而代之的是,免下车餐厅

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This is useful especially when we get to details like forensics and looking at data on a hard drive, - 'cause if you don't know how much store-- how many bits are composing your file, you're never gonna recover that data or be able to access what you're looking for.

这是很有用的，尤其是在法庭上,查看硬盘驱动器里的数据时，如果你连-,文件有多少比特都不知道，你如何去恢复数据,获取你想要的信息呢。

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Some customers want to use your safe because safes are hard and expensive to get and some -and then you've got all this gold, so you might as well lend it out.

顾客需要使用你的保险箱,因为对个人而言保险箱既昂贵又难以获得,这样你就拿到他们的金子,然后你可以把金子借出去

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Like other startups, including Xobni, Yammer and YouSendIt, Box.net is targeting the very-hard-to-get IT budgets at companies.

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They're looking for the rare and hard-to-get, the limited releases, the birthday bourbons and single-barrel bourbons.

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Companies whose shares already are listed also need hard-to-get approvals to sell more stock.

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