The history of painting was full of artists who had earned nothing at all.

People never deserted torn clothes, but patched them up in many places.

那时,穿补丁的衣服随处可见.

Politics is what we talk about over coffee and at the water-cooler.

在这里谈论政治随处可见.我们在喝咖啡时谈论政治,在饮水机旁谈论政治.

But because the skystion at 50 meters is where you are everywhere.

但由于轻轨在50米处是你随处可见的.

During the World Cup, you can easily notice football fever everywhere.

世界杯期间, 你随处可见人们对足球的狂热.

Lace also seems to have dripped from every possible place.

蕾丝也在每个可能垂下的位置上随处可见.

This job is a piece of cake for him.

干这项工作,他是轻车熟路.

He wears his authority lightly and does not fret about taking decisions.

对于自己的权威,他举重若轻,做决定时也不会感到焦躁不安.

The boss is a stubborn man; it's not easy to make him dance to another tune.

老板是个很倔的人, 想让他改变态度谈何容易.

The boy who tries to succeed today without an education is swimming against the stream.

现今的年青人,要想不接受教育就有所成就,那真是逆流而上,谈何容易.

To be both , as Anna is, can be hard.

而要像安娜那样两者兼而有之, 谈何容易.

It is not easy to cut deal with that big international company!

和那么大的国际公司做交易谈何容易!

Testing in such conditions was no easy matter.

要在这样的条件下做实验谈何容易.

Could it be that easy?

谈何容易?

Doing so when an entire industry is going in the same direction is harder still.

如果整个行业也朝着同样的方向发展,加以反对就会难上加难.

Free is easy to say, but balance is MUCH MORE difficult to make.

自由很容易在嘴上说, 但维系平衡却难上加难.

The farmer wants to learn to raise and breed the technology is extremely difficult more.

农民要想学会饲养和繁殖技术更是难上加难.

That makes sampling them harder, even if you bother to look in the first place.

这使得样本采集难上加难, 即便你能耐着性子待在最初的地点观察.

Hiring great people is brutally hard.

招聘到优秀的员工更是难上加难.

Conventional education makes independent thinking extremely difficult.

传统的教育使独立思考难上加难.

This makes it harder to develop elite institutions.

这使得发展精英学校难上加难.