tough简单

The supply of seeds is a tough problem that has to be dealt with.

种子供应是一个必须解决的棘手问题。

can be a tough task to complete.

可能是一项难以完成的任务。

Experts say it is tougher to distinguish oneself in a school-affiliated extracurricular activity that is common among high school students than it is to stand out while doing an uncommon activity.

专家们说，在高中生中常见的校属课外活动中脱颖而出，比在一项不常见的活动中出类拔萃要难。

tough

艰难的

Regenerative products could be a hard sell, because the concept is tough to define quickly, says Julie Stanton, associate professor of agricultural economics at Pennsylvania State University Brandywine.

宾夕法尼亚州立大学布兰迪万分校农业经济学副教授朱莉·斯坦顿表示，再生产品可能很难推销，因为这个概念很难被快速定义。

That suggests it is in the broader corporate interest to recruit top candidates for increasingly tough jobs.

这表明，为日益艰巨的工作招募顶尖人选符合公司更广泛的利益。

That means more battles like the one now going on between the Justice Department and California, which enacted a tough net neutrality law in the wake of the FCC’s abdication.

这意味着将出现更多类似司法部与加利福尼亚州之间正在进行的这种斗争——加州在FCC放弃职责之后颁布了一部严格的网络中立法。

It needs tougher enforcement.

它需要更严格的执行。

tough resistance.

强硬的抵制。

It is as though 20 years of ever-tougher reforms of the job search and benefit administration system never happened.

仿佛20年来对求职和救济金管理制度日益严厉的改革从未发生过一样。

The food industry will be alarmed that such senior doctors back such radical moves, especially the call to use some of the tough tactics that have been deployed against smoking over the last decade.

如此资深的医生支持如此激进的举措，尤其是呼吁采用过去十年来用于控烟的一些强硬手段，这将令食品行业感到不安。

takes a tough line on political issues.

在政治问题上态度强硬。

Researchers should improve their standards, he wrote in 2012, but journals should also take a tougher line, “engaging reviewers who are statistically literate and editors who can verify the process”.

他在2012年写道，研究人员应该提高自身标准，但期刊也应采取更强硬的立场，“聘请精通统计的审稿人和能够核实流程的编辑”。