The novelist must "make believe very much"; he must be in earnest with his characters. But how to be in earnest, how to keep the note of disbelief and derision "out of the memorial"? Ah, there is the difficulty, but it is a difficulty of which many authors appear to be insensible. Perhaps they suffer from no such temptations.英文原著 · 《Adventures among Books》
"The great difficulty in taking an electrotype impression, and preserving the original, has been attributed to the battery being too powerful. I am led to believe from practice that the principal difficulty has been in the Daguerreotype plate itself, for if we use an impression that has been taken but a few days, and taken in the usual way, we will find it difficult to succeed without spoiling both the copy and original, and so also with an old impression.英文原著 · 《American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype》
I have heard American statesmen confess that the Union will have great difficulty in maintaining its rank on the seas without adopting the system of impressment or of maritime conscription; but the difficulty is to induce the people, which exercises the supreme authority, to submit to impressment or any compulsory system.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
One night she and her husband went to dine with the Sterlings. After dinner Mr. Mortimer accepted his host's invitation to stay for a smoke. He saw no difficulty in his wife walking home alone; it was but half a mile, and the night was fine and moonlit. Mortimer made no difficulty either, but Mrs. Sterling was sure that Harry would be delighted to see Mrs. Mortimer to her house.英文原著 · 《Frivolous Cupid》
I have given a good deal of thought to this difficulty and am persuaded that there is a way out. I want to present it here because, if it appeals to you as wise, you will be able to help in putting the plan to the test of experience. As the difficulty is ignorance, the remedy is study.英文原著 · 《Library Work with Children》
Although the enemy by this disgraceful means has been able to concentrate in Georgia and Alabama a much larger force than we anticipated, your armies will be abundantly able to defeat him. Your difficulty will not be in the want of men, but in the means of supplying them at this season of the year. A single-track railroad can supply an army of sixty or seventy thousand men, with the usual number of cavalry and artillery; but beyond that number, or with a large mounted force, the difficulty of supply is very great.英文原著 · 《Memoirs of General William T. Sherman-1》
Infiltration of Axelrod's penthouse involves the highest degree of difficulty.美剧 · 《Billions》
Not always about the degree of technical difficulty, sometimes it's about insight and initiative.美剧 · 《Billions》
Oh, no. Of course, Mary's main difficulty is that her situation is unresolved.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
The difficulty is getting there, and clearly, the cost to orbit is key. The difficulty is getting there, and clearly, the cost to orbit is key.演讲 · 《Our next giant leap ~ Peter Diamandis》