难以接受的事实

My body is aging, and I can hardly admit it to myself.

我的身体已渐渐衰老，这是我难以接受的事实。

The fact that he no longer is a superstar is a bitter pill to swallow.

他难以接受不再是当红巨星的事实。

President Obama said he acknowledged the hard truth of war will never be eradicated in our lifetimes.

奥巴马总统说他承认战争并没有在我们的生活中被根除这个难以接受的事实。

More than two thousand years ago, when greek found that there existed another kind of number likewhich is totally different from rational number. they can't accept this weird fact and thought this new kind of number was unreasonable, so people called it "irrational number".

两千多年前，当希腊人发现这类数与有理数不同时，人们难以接受这个事实，认为这个怪物的出现是不合情理的，于是给它扣上一顶无理的帽子，原有的数自然是有理的。

On the basis of some language facts that we discovered in Fucun, we try to explain the "contradiction", and think that the root of the " contradiction" rests with the undoubtedly powerful status of Mandarin: Fucun people on the one hand think that Mandarin is more useful and preferable, so willing to speak it; on the other hand, regarding Mandarin as the mark of high social status, they may difficultly accept or exclude using Mandarin before people of the village, so uncourageous to speak it.

根据在傅村所调查到的一些事实，我们对这一看似矛盾的现象进行了解释，认为这一&矛盾&的根源在于普通话无可争议的强势地位：傅村人一方面认为它&更好听&&史有用&，因而&想说&，但另一方面又将普通话视为有身份、有地位的标志，若对同村人使用这样的语言，对方将难以接受并很有可能受到排斥甚至指责，因而又&不敢说&。

He said it is a scandal, which must be combated by changes in style of life , consumption,and fairer distribution of resources.

他说这是一个难以接受的事实，必须通过生活方式和消费的改变，以及更公平的资源分配方式才能改变这一现状。

It's something I have to accept, I'm devastated and it's hard to take.

这是我必须接受的事实。我感到身心交瘁且难以接受。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。