The difficulty of the poem lies to a great degree, I think, in something that Dr. Johnson had noted in his attack or in his criticism on Lycidas that I mentioned on Monday.

诗歌本身的难点很大程度上，在于约翰逊博士在他对利西达斯的,抨击中提到的一些点。

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The Obama team, unfortunately, has neither of those, so their degree of difficulty in execution is much greater.

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So there's risk involved and a certain degree of difficulty in actually making the contact and getting to the right people.

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The degree of difficulty in any one of these steps is substantial.

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