They were hard times and his parents had been struggling to raise their family.

那是困难时期，他的父母一直挣扎着养家糊口。

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A restaurant had fallen upon hard times.

一家餐馆在困难时期倒闭了。

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How are you getting on in these hard times?

你在这些困难的日子里过得怎么样？

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Even in hard times and some might say especially in hard times people still show concern about others.

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Even though a hard drive spins at 7200 times per minute or even faster, that's relatively slower than the speed of light.

即使一个硬盘驱动器的转速达到每分钟7200次,甚至更快，仍然比光速慢。

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So, it's very hard to do it psychologically but at certain times you're in between and you're not going to get the benefit of that.

所以仅靠心理猜测去实施策略是非常困难的,但是有时候你会处在中间位置,你也不会从中获利。

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Those structured products have fallen on hard times as the mortgage sector sinks deeper into crisis.

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And I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Detroit was on relatively hard times.

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As hard times hit, airlines began grounding existing planes and cancelling orders for new ones.

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