棘手

He has been asked to solve tricky educational conundrums before and, every time, he has managed to catch the prevailing political wind.

幸而他以前就曾被请来解决&教育课程&的棘手难题，并且他每次都能设法紧跟当时的政治风向。

But the book's popularity in China (there are about 600,000 real and pirated copies in circulation, according to the publisher) is striking when pondering one of the thorniest conundrums in Chinese, and indeed global, economic policymaking.

但在人们思索中国乃至全球经济政策制定中最为棘手的难题时，这本书在中国的受欢迎程度令人瞩目（出版商称，该书正版与盗版的总发行量高达60万册）。

Volatile commodity prices, and the built-in revenue bust inherent in depletable resources, complicate planning.

飘忽不定的商品价格，以及可消耗性资源天生注定的收入枯竭都让经济规划变得棘手。

A man rides an angry cow in Cape York Peninsula, a place of extremes that has been dubbed "The Land of Wait Awhile" by cattle drovers who are often ensnared in the region's thorny tangles.

在约克角半岛，一个人正驾驭着一头愤怒的母牛。约克角半岛是澳大利亚昆士兰洲的尽头，这里被那些经常处于棘手的混乱状态之中的牛贩子们称为&稍等之地&。

Now, as politicians try to wheedle their way back to respectability, all sorts of constitutional changes are suddenly on the table, distracting just a touch from the more painful task of punishing the fiddlers and tightening the rules.

如今，政客们试图施展花言巧语重获尊崇地位，因此各种各样琳琅满目的宪法改革也就骤然出现，使得更加棘手的任务无暇顾及：惩治奸邪，整肃纲纪。

Stickies include an alarm feature that can be set to either flash the sticky, sound and alarm or flash the sticky and sound the alarm.

胶粘包括报警功能，可被设定为闪存棘手的，声音和报警或Flash粘性和敲响了警钟。

To our ears it's not pure hi-fi (and remember we take a fairly liberal view of these things) and the colorations involved in this kind of sound would have the old fogeys of the hi-fi industry heading for their graves just so they could start spinning in them.

对我们的耳朵来说这不是纯粹的HI-FI(而且您地知道我们是以自由的方式来看待这个问题)，那些能处理好棘手的音色问题的hifi 工业保守者们也许将把他们的技术带进坟墓了。

The marathon is considered the toughest foot race in the world, covering a distance equivalent to six marathons over six days through the Moroccan desert.

马拉松被认为是世界上最棘手的脚在比赛，超过6天完成的立法路程相当于6摩洛哥沙漠马拉松通过。

Perhaps our vast piles of junk can serve as visual metaphors for the difficult questions that we Americans face as the earth's most voracious resource gluttons.

也许垃圾问题是我们的巨大的痔，它呈现了一个视觉的隐喻——关于我们这些美国人面对的棘手问题——地球上最贪婪的资源吞噬者。译之匆匆，谨附原文

ALISTAIR DARLING, the chancellor of the exchequer, had the unenviable task on Wednesday April 22nd of delivering the grisliest budget in post-war history.

达林周三（4月22日）有一项十分棘手的任务，即发布战后以来最恐怖的财政预算案。2009年秋季的国家财政支出将是1945年最大的一笔。

She gently rebuff ed him, but agreed that they could be friends

她婉言拒绝了，但同意作为朋友相处。

If in the penal farm, you were sure to be criticized.

要是在劳改农场，你等着挨绳子吧！