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difficult English

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difficult

When something is difficult, it is not easy. It'll be difficult to get him to change his mind; he's really stubborn. It's more difficult to learn another language when you're older than when you're young. The most difficult thing I've ever had to do was get over my fear of flying.

difficult

(= hard) not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure a difficult task nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access difficult times why is it so hard for you to keep a secret? (= unmanageable) hard to control a difficult child an unmanageable situation

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Simple sentences

English is difficult to learn.
English is difficult, isn't it?
Tennis is difficult. I never know which way the ball is going to fly.
She knew herself that it would be very difficult to carry out the mission.
It must have been difficult for her to knit this sweater.
The president is difficult to approach.
It is difficult for me to get up before six.
It is difficult to see her.
In legal documents, difficult words and phrases are often used.
A banker's life is difficult.
Tom asked Mary a rather difficult question.
It's difficult to help people who don't want your help.
This time, the exam was not just difficult, but also, the questions were ambiguous.
It was difficult.
It's quite difficult to master French in 2 or 3 years.
It's difficult to have great ideas.
It's more difficult than you think.
You have to cope with those difficult problems.
I find it difficult to believe.
What made it difficult for you to carry out the plan?
It is difficult to shoot a bird flying in the air.
It is difficult to give up smoking.
It is difficult to wake up on cold mornings.
It is difficult for a foreigner to study Japanese.
Learning a foreign language is difficult.
It is very difficult for you to do this work.
Flying against a strong wind is very difficult.
The habit of smoking is very difficult to get rid of.
Kanji are difficult to read.

Movie subtitles

Area 11 will be difficult to handle.
Do you understand how difficult this is gonna be?
Honestly, we were jammed between you two, so it's really difficult for us.
I know this is difficult, but can you think of any reason why someone would want to hurt him?
That must've been difficult.
I just know that Meyerism helped you at a very difficult time in your life, and now the movement needs something from you.
Hard to keep her away from it, even in difficult times such as these.
Difficult to say with any certainty, sir.
This must be difficult.
It is difficult to say how the weakened young Hutter was able to overcome all the obstacles of the trip home.
Now, mind you a knife is a difficult thing to handle.
Ouessant, which is separated from Bannec by the difficult Fromveur passage. is the biggest and mildest of the islands of the archipelago.
But I keep telling you how difficult it is, Mrs. Schuyler.
But Father's so difficult.
Well, that was not too difficult, a quick, simple, calculation.
But back then there was only a small number of participants, because students could not attend and also because travel was difficult during the war.
Yet he did not consider how difficult it is to control passion, once it is unbridled.
It's difficult. That's the final word.
It was difficult to play the role of gentleman without a Millionaire Friend, but he did his best.
I keep telling you how difficult it is, Mrs Schuyler.
You must have something very difficult for me tonight.
Funny you should say that because i always find it so difficult to talk to people.
That's a pity because it's difficult for you to understand.
Love is a very difficult business, mr. Gordon.
It makes everything difficult and dangerous.
Don't make it too difficult.
They're difficult, they're complicated.
Lee Jae Ha will definitely be difficult to deal with.
It should also be quite difficult for the Republic of South Korea to survive. If war were to breaks out between neighboring countries.
In a difficult situation like this, if the mother doesn't make an effort.
Making a choice and protecting something is a difficult thing to do.
It is truly difficult.
It's strait difficult sincerely to interpret this is a visitation of the divine spirit or is a revelation of a transcendental world.
With all those people around it's been difficult to hide it.
I don't mind having a difficult father-in-law.

News and current affairs

Given that America benefits mightily from China's purchases of US government securities, it is difficult to understand why the US government and Congress have been complaining so much about the bilateral current-account deficit.
It is also difficult to grasp why China is so reluctant to reduce its bilateral surplus, given meager returns on its massive holdings of US government securities and a sustained risk of large capital losses in the future.
This political power, not the requirements of energy policy, is what makes giving up nuclear energy so difficult.
Later writers came to recognize that there are other essential criteria for a successful currency union, which are difficult to achieve without deep political integration.
In fact, the evidence for a crisis of trust is rather difficult to interpret.
Scientists appear to know the mechanism that generates weather, even if it is inherently difficult to extrapolate very far.
The problem for macroeconomics is that the types of causes mentioned for the current crisis are difficult to systematize.
There is a considerable gap between offers of advice one cannot refuse and the responsibility to deal with the consequences when that advice proves wrong or extremely difficult to implement.
The fairness of giving every person on earth an equal share of the atmosphere's capacity to absorb our greenhouse gas emissions is difficult to deny.
It will be difficult, but not impossible, to re-establish confidence in the central government.
Germany urgently needs this kind of optimism, because, unfortunately, two universal principles will continue to apply in the future: first, the winter will return, and, second, the ball is round and the next game is always the most difficult.
Just as it is next to impossible to take a critically ill patient off life-support treatment, it is equally difficult to wean post-bubble economies from their now steady dose of liquidity injections and deficit spending.
Indeed, the global economy in 2013 could be a very difficult environment in which to find shelter.
Although it may be difficult to connect the dots, it is perfectly possible that a huge euro crisis could have a snowball effect in the US and elsewhere.
Most economic research suggests that gold prices are very difficult to predict over the short to medium term, with the odds of gains and losses being roughly in balance.
What was true for the alchemists of yore remains true today: gold and reason are often difficult to reconcile.
Second, whereas democracy and market capitalism appeared as clear - if more fragile than expected - winners in 1989, it is difficult in 2009, with the spread of the global crisis, to distinguish winners from losers.
So, although the EU represents our best hope of ensuring that Europe is internationally competitive in today's increasingly difficult environment, it is actually being blamed for globalization.
Unfortunately, despite past stimulus, growth is still tepid, and it is increasingly difficult to find sensible new spending that can pay off in the short run.
It is difficult not to take some private pleasure in this comeuppance for the Masters of the Universe.
While accurate attribution of the ultimate source of a cyber attack is sometimes difficult, the determination does not have to be airtight.
Because Burma's generals say almost nothing in public, it is difficult to fathom why they allowed elections that elevated Thein Sein to power, or to explain their willingness to embrace dialogue with the long-suppressed opposition.
The fairness of giving every person on earth an equal share of the atmosphere's capacity to absorb our greenhouse gas emissions is difficult to deny. Why should anyone have a greater entitlement than others to use the earth's atmosphere?

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