There are degrees in being hard up. We are all hard up, more or less--most of us more. Some are hard up for a thousand pounds; some for a shilling. Just at this moment I am hard up myself for a fiver. I only want it for a day or two. I should be certain of paying it back within a week at the outside, and if any lady or gentleman among my readers would kindly lend it me, I should be very much obliged indeed. They could send it to me under cover to Messrs. Field & Tuer, only, in such case, please let the envelope be carefully sealed.英文原著 · 《Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow》
She saw not the fields of growing grain but a long vista of happy days ever growing in beauty and in glory until she could see no more for the tears that quietly fell. The boy dropped on his knees beside her. "Oh, mother, mother," he said. "You have been wonderful to us all, and you have had an awfully hard time. A fellow never knows, does he?"
"A hard time? A hard time?" said his mother, a great surprise in her voice and in her face. "No, my boy, no hard time for me. A dear, dear, lovely time with you all, every day, every day.英文原著 · 《The Major》
"Hah!" said Mr. Honest, "it is a hard one; hard to expound, and harder still to practise." Yes; this after-supper riddle of Mr. Greatheart is a hard one in both respects; and for this reason, because the learned and much experienced guide--learned with all that his lifelong quarters in the Interpreter's House could teach him, and experienced with a lifetime's accumulated experience of the pilgrim life--has put all his learning and all his life into these two mysterious lines. But old Honest, once he had sufficiently rubbed up his eyes and his intellects, gave the answer:英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-2》
Poor little girl!" murmured Gale, brokenly. "I felt something was wrong. Nell wasn't natural, like her old self. And when I begged her to marry me soon, while Dad was here, she couldn't talk. She could only cry."
"It was hard on Nell," said Belding, simply. "But it 'll be better now you're back. Dick, I know the girl. She'll refuse to marry you and you'll have a hard job to break her down, as hard as the one you just rode in off of.英文原著 · 《Desert Gold》
But you, Miss Dodd? with whom I have taken this unwarrantable liberty?" said Hardie imploringly. "Me, Mr. Hardie? You do me the honour to require my opinion of your performances: including of course this self-introduction?"
Hardie hung his head; there was a touch of satire in the lady's voice, he thought. Her soft eyes rested demurely on him a moment; she saw he was a little abashed. "My opinion of it all is that you have been very kind to us; in being most kind to our poor Edward. I never saw, nor read of anything more generous, more manly.英文原著 · 《Hard Cash》
Hardie suppressed a start, and said nothing. Skinner bowed low with a mixture of his old cringing way, and a certain sly triumphant leer, so that his body seemed to say one thing, and his face the opposite. Hardie eyed him, and saw that his coat was rusty, and his hat napless: then Mr. Hardie smelt a beggar, and prepared to parry all attempts upon his purse. "I hope I see my old master well," said Skinner coaxingly. "Pretty well in body, Skinner; thank you."
"I had a deal of trouble to find you, sir. But I heard of the great lawsuit between Mr. Alfred and you, and I knew Mr.英文原著 · 《Hard Cash》
We're just a little start-up cupcake company In a hard, hard world.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
I know this is a hard time for you, but it's a hard time for my friend as well.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
The hardest part, worse than the DTs or the looking back at everything you did or the constant fear of relapse, the hardest part is figuring out what the hell to drink when you order a meal at a nice restaurant.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
I know things have been hard for you since I started back to work, but it is just as hard for me to be away from you.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
Let's start with the hobbies. When you get dementia, it gets harder and harder to enjoy yourself. Let's start with the hobbies. When you get dementia, it gets harder and harder to enjoy yourself.演讲 · 《How I'm preparing to get Alzheimer's ~ Alanna Shaikh》