英和和英

hard‐earned

hard‐sought

haughtily stubborn

severe

severe

severe

severe

bored stiff

strong‐nerved

hard

hit hard

hit hard

violent-tempered

violent-tempered

hard dealing

censure severely

the degree of difficulty

a close blockade

to find one's way out of the difficulty―struggle through difficulties―get out of trouble

a source of difficulty

a granitic fist

to extricate oneself from difficulties―get out of trouble

the degree of difficulty

in a stiff manner

of an object, a state of being hard

Victorian morals

excessive breakableness

to escape a difficulty

bound vigorously

to tide over a difficulty