It may be hard to imagine a planet blacker than coal, but that's what astronomers say they've discovered in our home galaxy with NASA's Kepler space telescope.(很難想象一個行星比煤炭還要黑，但是宇航員們的確聲稱，他們通過NASA的開普勒太空望遠鏡在我們所處的銀河系發現了這樣一顆行星。)

There may be two competing deceptions at work here, equally hard to trace: a black lie (“I say I am going to vote Obama, but secretly I will not.(所以可能有兩個自相矛盾的謊言在這里作用，兩個都很難去追根究底：一個黑色（惡意）的謊言（“我說我會給奧巴馬投票，但是我私底下并不會。”）)

We come to know things that we'd be hard pressed to say how we learned it.(我們逐漸學習到一些知識，這些知識是我們很難解釋我們如何學會的。)

It is hard to say to your parents "I want to devour and be devoured", even if you live in north London.(你很難對你的父母說“我想吃人，也想被吃”——即便你生活在北倫敦。)

Critics say that would extend copyright to facts. It would also be hard to make either regime work in practice.(反對者則認為，這一做法將把版權擴展到事實領域。)

It's going to be hard to say whether... he saw what came because everything came with such speed and power.(這將是很難說…他看到了后來因為這件事這樣的速度和力量來了。)

The most hard-nosed realists, including some of the diplomats sitting behind their foreign-minister bosses, say that extraordinary compromises will have to be made, particularly on women’s rights.(但是最頑固的現實主義者，包括一些身后有各國外交部老大撐腰的外交官們，表示：必須要達成一些特殊妥協，尤其是在婦女權利方面。)

Hard to say, as the last few weeks have been turbulent times for world financial markets, which makes it difficult for any IPO to be successful.(這很難說。因為過去幾周，全球金融市場呈現震蕩態勢，任何IPO想要成功都不是件容易的事。)

“But the prose and the poetry match up, ” he said. “It would be very hard for people to look back and say, You know what, Obama didn’t do what he’s promised.(“但是詩與散文得搭配起來，”他說，“你知道么，回顧并說‘奧巴馬沒有做到他承諾的‘對人們來說是非常困難的。)

When that is hard, because a parts supplier is highly specialised, say, good management is likely to be more effective than state aid.(當經濟情況很糟時，由于零部件供應商是高度專業化的，良好的管理遠比國家援助更有效。)