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fighting to/for (он дышал с трудом - he was fighting for breath Tanya Gesse); some doing (мы его с трудом уговорили - it took some doing to convince him Tanya Gesse); with effort (lexicographer); with ill-grace (КГА); by a narrow margin; by a finger's breadth (Anglophile); only just; with an effort (Anglophile); have a hard time (doing something • Those who were fluent in Hebrew, on the other hand, had a hard time restraining themselves. I found out later that what I had told the congregation, in contemporary Hebrew, was: ". . . but after all, you can't make an omelet without busting balls." 4uzhoj); not without difficulty (Супру); scarcely; drudgingly; illy; scarce; hard; jog; slump; hardly; barely; arduously; laboriously (supercreator); narrowly; uneasily; not easily (spanishru); bumpily (Alex_Odeychuk); ill (not easily • We could ill afford to lose that money) |
