四级They had negative views of effort, believing that having to work hard was a sign of low ability.

他们对努力持否定态度，认为必须努力工作是能力低下的表现。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级The author's experiment shows that students with a fixed mind-set believe having to work hard is an indication of low ability.

作者的实验表明，思维定势固定的学生认为必须努力学习是能力低下的表现。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级Another group of helpless children who were simply rewarded for their success on easier problems did not improve their ability to solve hard math problems.

另一组无助的孩子仅仅因为他们在较容易的问题上取得了成功而得到奖励，但并没有提高他们解决数学难题的能力。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级Building on a child's ability to feel joy, rather than pushing it aside, wouldn't be that hard.

建立一个孩子感受快乐的能力，而不是把快乐推到一边，这并不难。

2015年12月阅读原文

高考And I went into a speech about how hard I worked and the gains I was making.

我发表了一篇演讲，讲述了我是如何努力工作和取得的成就。

2016年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文

高考Dad sat me down and said, "Alice, I know it's hard, but it's all about persistence (坚持不懈)."

爸爸让我坐下来说：“爱丽丝，我知道这很难，但这都是为了坚持(坚持不懈)."

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读表达 原文

四级The least that can be concluded from this research is that companies need to think harder about managing teams.

从这项研究中可以得出的最起码的结论是，公司需要更加认真地思考团队管理问题。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级What about supply? The three environmental trends—the shortage of fresh water, the loss of topsoil and the rising temperatures—are making it increasingly hard to expand the world's grain supply fast enough to keep up with demand.

供应呢？三大环境趋势——淡水短缺、表土流失和气温上升——使得世界粮食供应越来越难以快速增长，以满足需求。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级How do we transmit a growth mind-set to our children? One way is by telling stories about achievements that result from hard work.

我们如何将成长心态传递给孩子？一种方法是讲述艰苦工作所取得的成就。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级Could you reproduce Silicon Valley elsewhere, or is there something unique about it?It wouldn't be surprising if it were hard to reproduce in other countries, because you couldn't reproduce it in most of the US either.

你们能在其他地方复制硅谷吗，或者它有什么独特之处吗？若它在其他国家很难复制，这并不奇怪，因为你们也不能在我们大多数人中复制它。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级Most American parents say they are not concerned about their children's grades as long as they work hard.

大多数美国父母说，只要他们努力学习，他们就不关心孩子的成绩。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级Companies are pushing it hard but make it almost overwhelming even to dip a toe in the water for the average consumer, because there are so many compatibility issues to think about.

公司正在努力推动，但对于普通消费者来说，这几乎是压倒性的，因为有太多的兼容性问题需要考虑。

2016年12月阅读原文

考研Having said all of the above, it's important to add that we shouldn't try too hard to be happy.

说了以上所有的话，重要的是要补充一点，我们不应该为了快乐而太努力。

2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级The assumption is that children shouldn't chat in the classroom because it hinders hard work; instead, they should learn to delay gratification ( ' , 快乐 ) so that they can pursue abstract goals, like going to college.

假设是孩子们不应该在教室里聊天，因为这会妨碍努力学习；相反，他们应该学会延迟满足（“，快乐 ) 这样他们就可以追求抽象的目标，比如上大学。

2015年12月阅读原文

四级The assumption is that children shouldn't chat in the classroom because it hinders hard work; instead, they should learn to delay gratification so that they can pursue abstract goals, like going to college.

假设是孩子们不应该在教室里聊天，因为这会妨碍努力学习；相反，他们应该学会延迟满足感，这样才能追求抽象的目标，比如上大学。

2015年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

四级Citing the work of psychologists and cognitive (认知的)scientists, Leslie criticizes the received wisdom that academic success is the result of a combination of intellectual talent and hard work.

引用心理学家和认知心理学家的工作(认知的)科学家们，莱斯利批评了公认的智慧，即学术上的成功是智力天赋和努力工作相结合的结果。

2017年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

四级But critics say the digital access codes represent the same profit-seeking ethos (观念) of the textbook business, and are even harder for students to opt out of.

但批评人士说，数字接入码代表着同样的营利精神(观念) 而对于学生来说，选择退出就更难了。

2018年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

四级This is hard to achieve when, as is now the case in many big firms, a large proportion of staff are temporary contractors.

这是很难实现的，就像现在许多大公司的情况一样，大部分员工是临时承包商。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级It is achieved through hard struggle

这是通过艰苦的斗争实现的

2013年12月阅读原文

四级The problem is that such an impulse is hard to sustain Across the country, many similar families were unable to maintain the initial boost in morale(士气).

问题是，这种冲动在全国很难维持，许多类似的家庭无法维持最初的士气高涨(士气).

2012年6月阅读原文

考研One reason why it is hard to design and teach such courses is that they cut across the insistence by top American universities that liberal-arts education and professional education should be kept separate, taught in different schools.

设计和教授这样的课程很难的一个原因是，它们跨越了美国顶尖大学的坚持，即人文教育和专业教育应该分开，在不同的学校教授。

2011年考研阅读原文

考研One reason why it is hard to design and teach such courses is that they cut across the insistence by top American universities that "liberal-arts education and professional education should be kept separate, taught in different schools".

设计和教授这样的课程很难的一个原因是，它们跨越了美国顶尖大学的坚持，即“文科教育和专业教育应该分开，在不同的学校教授”。

2011年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考She says these activities at bedtime can get kids all excited and make it hard for them to calm down and sleep.

她说，这些睡前活动会让孩子们兴奋不已，让他们很难平静下来睡觉。

2017年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

四级Instead of trying to get children to work hard, why not focus on getting them to take pleasure in meaningful, productive activity, like making things, working with others, exploring ideas, and solving problems? These focuses are not so different from the things in which they delight.

与其让孩子们努力工作，不如让他们在有意义的、有成效的活动中获得乐趣，比如做事情、与他人合作、探索想法和解决问题？这些关注点与他们喜欢的事物没有太大区别。

2015年12月阅读原文

四级Instead of trying to get children to work hard, why not focus on getting them to take pleasure in meaningful, productive activity, like making things, working with others, exploring ideas, and solving problems?

与其让孩子们努力工作，不如让他们在有意义的、有成效的活动中获得乐趣，比如做事情、与他人合作、探索想法和解决问题？

2015年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

高考When a reader selects delayed reward news, he pulls himself into the world of surrounding reality to which he can adapt himself only by hard work.

当读者选择延迟的奖励新闻时，他会将自己拉入周围现实的世界中，只有努力工作才能使自己适应这个世界。

2015年高考英语江苏卷 任务型阅读 原文

六级She is hard at work finding a way to take traits from rare wild plants that adapt to extreme dry weather and use them in food crops.

她正在努力寻找一种方法，从适应极端干旱气候的稀有野生植物中提取特征，并将其用于粮食作物。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

四级In addition, they held hard work in high regard.

此外，他们还高度重视艰苦的工作。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级Here are some of the important proposals in the House and Senate bills to try to address those problems, and why it is hard to know how well they will work.

以下是众议院和参议院法案中试图解决这些问题的一些重要提案，以及为什么很难知道这些提案的效果如何。

2016年6月阅读原文

高考Changing levels of body chemicals called hormones not only make teenagers' bodies develop adult characteristics, but also make it hard for teenagers to fall asleep before 11 pm.

一种叫做激素的身体化学物质水平的变化不仅使青少年的身体形成成人特征，而且使青少年在晚上11点之前难以入睡。

2017年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考Having your grandchildren far away is hard, especially knowing your adult child is struggling, but giving up the life you know may be harder.

让你的孙子远离你是很难的，尤其是知道你的成年孩子正在挣扎，但是放弃你所知道的生活可能会更难。

2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

四级Patterns of childhood eating can be hard to break when we're adults, which may mean that kids of depressed moms end up dying younger.

当我们成年后，童年时期的饮食模式很难打破，这可能意味着抑郁母亲的孩子最终会英年早逝。

2016年6月阅读原文

考研It’s hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous: most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut.

很难想象，仅仅因为里斯和安吉丽娜让孩子看起来如此迷人，许多人就傻到想要孩子：大多数成年人都明白婴儿不是理发。

2011年考研阅读原文

高考It's not all that hard to build an advanced and large vocabulary.

建立一个高级的、大量的词汇表并不难。

2017年高考英语浙江卷（11月） 语法填空 原文

四级Although economic research and previous survey findings have shown that career interruptions related to motherhood may make it harder for women to advance in their careers and compete for top executive jobs, relatively few adults in the recent survey poin

尽管经济研究和先前的调查结果表明，与母亲身份相关的职业中断可能会使女性更难在职业生涯中取得进步，也更难竞争高管职位，但在最近的调查中，相对较少的成年人参与了这项调查

2019年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

六级Despite mournful polar bears and charts showing carbon emissions soaring, most people find it hard to believe that global warming will affect them personally.

尽管北极熊哀伤不已，图表显示碳排放量飙升，但大多数人很难相信全球变暖会对他们个人造成影响。

2015年12月阅读原文

四级Few people can afford it without working hard.

很少有人不努力工作就能负担得起。

2011年12月阅读原文

高考Her years of hard work have finally been acknowledged after a customer nominated her to be cheshire's woman of the year.

在一位顾客提名她为柴郡年度女性后，她多年的辛勤工作终于得到了认可。

2019年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

高考One afternoon, I was crossing the field to go home and saw Miller stuck going over a fence—which wasn't hard to climb if you had both arms.

一天下午，我正穿过田野回家，看到米勒被困在一道篱笆上，如果你有双臂的话，这道篱笆并不难爬。

2016年高考英语全国卷3 完形填空 原文

高考Its difficulties appear so great that, however hard we work, we fail again and again.

它的困难看来是如此之大，以至于无论我们多么努力，我们一次又一次地失败。

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

四级Again, the point is to listen hard while keeping the pen moving.

再说一次，关键是要在保持笔移动的同时认真倾听。

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

考研Forests give us shade, quiet and one of the harder challenges in the fight against climate change.

森林给了我们阴凉、安静的环境，也是应对气候变化的一大挑战。

2019年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级In fact, there is almost no hard evidence for midlife crisis other than a few small pilot studies conducted decades ago, Barbara Hagerty writes in her new book, Life Reimagined.

事实上，除了几十年前进行的几项小型试点研究外，几乎没有确凿的证据证明中年危机，芭芭拉·哈格蒂在她的新书《重新想象生活》中写道。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级Should a woman who possessed a small amount of drugs years ago be permanently unable to be licensed as a nurse?These laws are also counterproductive, since they make it harder for people with criminal records to find housing or land a job, two key factors that reduce backsliding.

几年前持有少量毒品的女性是否应该永久无法获得护士执照？这些法律也起到了反作用，因为它们使有犯罪记录的人更难找到住房或工作，这是减少倒退的两个关键因素。

2015年12月阅读原文

四级"In fact, there is almost no hard evidence for midlife crisis other than a few small pilot studies conducted decades ago," Barbara Hagerty writes in her new book, life Reimagined.

“事实上，除了几十年前进行的几项小型试点研究外，几乎没有确凿的证据证明中年危机，”芭芭拉·哈格蒂在她的新书《生活重新想象》中写道。

2017年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

四级The amount of nicotine that's delivered in every cigarette is 10 percent higher than it was six years ago, which means that it's easier to get hooked and harder to quit.

与六年前相比，每支香烟中的尼古丁含量增加了10%，这意味着更容易上瘾，也更难戒烟。

2016年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

四级Some team members find it hard to agree on questions like membership and the team's purpose.

一些团队成员发现很难在成员资格和团队目标等问题上达成一致。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级If it is hard enough to define a team's membership, agreeing on its purpose is harder still.

如果很难确定团队成员，那么就更难达成一致。

2017年6月阅读原文

考研If you look hard enough, you'll find that many of the products we use every day—chewing gums, skin moisturizers, disinfecting wipes, air fresheners, water purifiers, health snacks, antiperspirants, colognes, teeth whiteners, fabric softeners, vitamins—are

如果你仔细观察，你会发现我们每天使用的许多产品——口香糖、皮肤润肤霜、消毒湿巾、空气清新剂、净水器、健康零食、止汗剂、古龙水、洁牙剂、织物柔软剂、维生素都很好

2010年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研It might also be hard for airlines to coordinate the departure times and destinations of passenger aircraft in a way that would allow them to gain from formation flight.

航空公司可能也很难协调客机的起飞时间和目的地，使其能够从编队飞行中获益。

2010年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考Lots of people find it hard to get up in the morning and put the blame on the alarm clock.

很多人发现早上起床很难把责任推到闹钟上。

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 七选五 原文

高考I find it hard to stop! Dancing reminds me I'm alive.

我觉得很难停下来！跳舞提醒我我还活着。

2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 七选五 原文

高考When Grylls heard about Nicholas' amazing deeds, he was super impressed that Nicholas had made it since he knew better than anyone how hard Nicholas had to work to stay alive.

当格里尔斯听说尼古拉斯的惊人事迹时，他对尼古拉斯的成功留下了深刻的印象，因为他比任何人都清楚尼古拉斯为了生存必须付出多大的努力。

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

考研Certainly, it's incredibly hard to maintain patience at all times with your children.

当然，要始终对孩子保持耐心是非常困难的。

2020年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

四级About 8% said they used the Internet as a way to escape problems, and almost 14% reported they "found it hard to stay away from the Internet for several days at a time

大约8%的人说他们使用互联网来逃避问题，近14%的人说他们“发现很难一次远离互联网好几天”

2010年6月阅读原文

六级Companies are pushing it hard but make it almost overwhelming even to dip a toe in the water for the average consumer, because there are so many compatibility issues to think about.

公司正在努力推动，但对于普通消费者来说，这几乎是压倒性的，因为有太多的兼容性问题需要考虑。

2016年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

四级She finds it hard to get along with Mary.

她发现很难与玛丽相处。

2013年6月听力原文

六级As recent graduates can testify, the job market isn't kind to candidates who can't demonstrate genuine competence, along with a well-cultivated willingness to work hard.

正如应届毕业生可以证明的那样，就业市场对那些不能展示出真正能力以及良好的努力工作意愿的候选人并不友好。

2015年12月阅读原文

高考If you are already making the time to exercise, it is good indeed! with such busy lives, it can be hard to try and find the time to work out.

如果你已经有时间锻炼，那真的很好！在如此忙碌的生活中，你很难找到时间去锻炼。

2018年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 原文

高考However, it is also hard to keep a code book secret for long.

然而，也很难长期保守密码本的秘密。

2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 七选五 原文

六级A number of prominent economists have also argued that it's harder for the poor to climb the economic ladder today because the rungs（横档） in that ladder have grown farther apart.

许多著名的经济学家也认为，如今穷人更难爬上经济阶梯，因为他们的经济地位越来越高(横档） 在那个梯子上，他们的距离越来越远。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级A number of prominent economists have also argued that it's harder for the poor to climb the economic ladder today because the rungs (横档) in that ladder have grown farther apart.

许多著名的经济学家也认为，如今穷人更难爬上经济阶梯，因为他们的经济地位越来越高(横档) 在那个梯子上，他们的距离越来越远。

2015年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

考研I also found that weighing myself daily did not provide an accurate depiction of the hard work and progress I was making in the gym.

我还发现，每天称体重并不能准确地描述我在健身房所做的艰苦工作和取得的进步。

2019年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

高考But alternative explanations are hard to find.

但很难找到其他解释。

2017年高考英语江苏卷 单项填空 原文

六级While alternative estimates of the damage from carbon emissions differ, and it's especially hard to reckon the likely costs of possible catastrophic climate events, most estimates suggest substantial negative effects.

虽然对碳排放造成的损害的其他估计各不相同，而且很难估算可能发生的灾难性气候事件的可能成本，但大多数估计都表明了巨大的负面影响。

2017年6月阅读原文

高考However, Helene did not want her daughters to always work in the family business because she thought it was too hard.

然而，海伦不希望她的女儿们总是在家族企业工作，因为她认为这太难了。

2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

四级There are people who always wait until the last minute, and make it much harder than it needs to be.

有些人总是等到最后一分钟，让事情变得比需要的困难得多。

2017年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级"It's been hard not to share pictures of her because people always want to know how babies and toddler (学走路的孩子) are doing and to see pictures, but we made the decision to have social media while she did not," O'Hanlon said.

“很难不与人分享她的照片，因为人们总是想知道婴儿和蹒跚学步的孩子是怎样的(学走路的孩子) 奥汉伦说：“我们正在做一些事情，想看看照片，但我们决定拥有社交媒体，而她没有。”。

2018年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

四级Considering that the government's standards are not nearly ambitious enough, the picture is clear: by not cooking at home, we're not eating the right things, and the consequences are hard to overstate.

考虑到政府的标准还不够雄心勃勃，情况很清楚：不在家做饭，我们吃的东西就不对，其后果也很难夸大。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级The average amount of time students now take to complete an undergraduate degree has stretched to six years and seven months as students interrupted by work, inconvenienced by unavailable classes, or lured by one more football season find it hard to graduate

如今，学生完成本科学位所需的平均时间已长达六年零七个月，因为学生们因工作中断、上课不方便或又被一个足球赛季吸引而难以毕业

2012年6月阅读原文

高考The team are working hard to analyze the problem so that they can find the best solution.

团队正在努力分析问题，以便找到最佳解决方案。

2015年高考英语湖北卷 单项选择 原文

高考Additionally, group exercise creates a community feel and the shared common goal motivates participants to work hard.

此外，集体锻炼创造了一种社区感觉，共同的目标激励参与者努力工作。

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

四级Passionate, energetic debate does not require anger and hard feelings to be effective.

充满激情、充满活力的辩论不需要愤怒和刻薄的情绪就能产生效果。

2015年12月阅读原文

高考The task was so hard, and Steve, angry and upset, said he was quitting.

任务太艰巨了，史蒂夫又生气又沮丧，说他要辞职了。

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考By feeding the ponies, tourists increase the risk of them getting hit by a car, and make them harder to gather during the area's annual pony drift (迁移).

游客给小马喂食，增加了它们被汽车撞倒的风险，使它们在该地区一年一度的小马漂流中更难聚集(迁移).

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

高考Looking back on your day, you will find it hard to deny that a horseback safari is as close as you will ever come to answering the call of the wild.

回首你的一天，你会发现很难否认，马背狩猎是你永远不会来回应野生的召唤。

2015年高考英语重庆卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

六级And it is hard not to think: Are we in an innovation lull ( ' , 间歇期 )?In some ways, the answer is yes.

很难不去想：我们是否处于创新停滞期（'，间歇期 )?在某些方面，答案是肯定的。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级We learn from the answer that a student who gets a 100 should still work hard and keep improving.

我们从答案中学到，一个得了100分的学生仍然应该努力学习，不断提高。

2010年6月阅读原文

高考This isn't as hard as it sounds, and it is far better than any other method because you improve your vocabulary while reading an interesting piece of literature.

这并不像听起来那么难，而且比任何其他方法都好，因为你在阅读一篇有趣的文学作品的同时提高了词汇量。

2017年高考英语浙江卷（11月） 语法填空 原文

六级Whether this is right, and if so where and when the ecological axe will fall, is hard to determine with any precision—which is why governments and financial institutions are only beginning to bring such risks into their economic calculations.

这是否正确，如果是的话，生态斧头何时何地落下，很难精确地确定，这就是为什么政府和金融机构才刚刚开始将这些风险纳入经济计算的原因。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级When Jean-Claude killy made the French national ski team in the early 1960s, he was prepared to work harder than anyone else to be the best.

当让·克劳德·基利在20世纪60年代初加入法国国家滑雪队时，他准备比其他任何人都更加努力，成为最好的。

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

四级In other words, when it comes to cities—or anything else—it is hard to predict the future.

换句话说，当涉及到城市或其他任何事情时，很难预测未来。

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

四级Its success is hard to copy anywhere else.

它的成功在其他任何地方都难以复制。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级Now, the only apparent cost to taking infinite photos of something as common as a meal is the space on your hard drive and your dining companion's patience.

现在，为一顿饭这样普通的东西拍摄无限量的照片，唯一明显的代价就是你的硬盘空间和你的用餐伙伴的耐心。

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

六级The changes would have to be approved or rejected as a whole by Congress, making it hard for narrow-interest lobbies to bend lawmakers to their will.

这些改变必须由国会整体批准或否决，这使得狭隘的利益游说团体很难让立法者屈服于他们的意愿。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级Changes in policy would be approved or rejected as a whole so that lobbyists would find it hard to influence lawmakers.

政策的改变将作为一个整体被批准或拒绝，这样说客们就会发现很难影响立法者。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级So far, machines have a pretty hard time emulating creativity, arbitrary enough not to be predicted by a computer, and yet more than simple randomness.

到目前为止，机器很难模仿创造力，其任意性足以让计算机无法预测，但也不仅仅是简单的随机性。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级Inequality is dangerous, he argued, not merely because it doesn't look good to have a large gap between the rich and the poor, but because inequality itself destroys upward mobility, making it harder for the poor to escape from poverty.

他认为，不平等是危险的，不仅因为贫富差距过大看起来不太好，而且因为不平等本身破坏了向上流动性，使穷人更难摆脱贫困。

2015年12月阅读原文

考研It is hard, the state argues, for judges to assess the implications of new and rapidly changing technologies.

该州认为，法官很难评估快速变化的新技术的影响。

2015年考研阅读原文

四级You feel the same emotions – it is just as raw, just as fresh… You can't turn off that stream of memories, no matter how hard you try.

你也会感受到同样的情绪——它同样原始，同样新鲜……无论你多么努力，你都无法关闭记忆流。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级Does assisted living really mark a great improvement over a nursing home, or has the industry simply hired better interior designers? Are nursing homes as bad as people fear, or is that an out-moded stereotype ( ' , 固定 看法 )? Can doing one's homework really steer families to the best places? It is genuinely hard to know.

与养老院相比，辅助生活真的标志着一个巨大的进步吗？还是整个行业只是雇佣了更好的室内设计师？养老院是否像人们担心的那样糟糕，或者这是一种过时的刻板印象（“，固定 看法 )? 做家庭作业真的能把家庭带到最好的地方吗？这真的很难知道。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级Perhaps most significant, according to Mannaz, is the increasing interest large companies have in more collaborative management models, such as those prevalent in Scandinavia, which seek to integrate the hard and soft aspects of leadership and encourage delegated responsibility and accountability.

Mannaz认为，也许最重要的是大公司对更具协作性的管理模式越来越感兴趣，比如斯堪的纳维亚半岛的管理模式，这种模式寻求整合领导力的硬方面和软方面，并鼓励授权责任和问责制。

2011年6月阅读原文

四级Since industrialization, maintaining such a slow cultural metabolism has been much harder, with the long midday meal shrinking to whatever could be stuffed into a lunch bucket or bought at a food stand.

自工业化以来，维持如此缓慢的文化代谢变得更加困难，漫长的午餐时间缩减到可以塞进午餐桶或在食品摊上买到的任何东西。

2016年6月阅读原文

高考That night, hurricane sandy attacked the east coast, and rockaway was hit especially hard.

那天晚上，飓风桑迪袭击了东海岸，洛克韦受到的打击尤其严重。

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

四级According to Arne Sorenson, the president of Marriott hotels, the current recession hit his business as hard as the 9/11 terrorist attack.

根据万豪酒店总裁阿恩·索伦森（Arne Sorenson）的说法，当前的经济衰退对他的业务的打击与911恐怖袭击一样严重。

2013年6月阅读原文

四级hit his business as hard as the 9/11 terrorist attack

像911恐怖袭击一样严重打击了他的生意

2013年6月阅读原文

六级Kristi King, a diet specialist at Texas Children's Hospital, finds it's hard to get teenager patients' attention about healthy eating.

德克萨斯州儿童医院的饮食专家克里斯蒂·金（Kristi King）发现，很难让青少年患者关注健康饮食。

2017年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section B

考研It is hard to shove for attention billionaire-pound infrastructure projects, so it is inevitable that the attention is focused elsewhere.

亿万富翁庞德（pound）的基础设施项目很难吸引人们的注意力，因此，注意力不可避免地集中在其他地方。

2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考No matter how attractive they look in the store, once I get them home they're unfailingly dry, hard, and tasteless.

不管它们在店里看起来有多漂亮，一旦我把它们带回家，它们总是干的、硬的、无味的。

2015年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

考研These epochal figures represented lives hard to imitate, but to be acknowledged as possessing higher authority than mere mortals.

这些划时代的人物代表了难以模仿的生活，但却被公认为拥有比凡人更高的权威。

2012年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ