tough break

基本解釋

Plug-in cars face a long, tough battle to break beyond a small but devoted audience of Hollywood stars, eccentrics and passionate environmentalists.
在贏得了諸如忠實(shí)的好萊塢影星追星族、怪人和熱情的環(huán)保人士等小部分人之外，充電汽車仍面臨著漫長(zhǎng)而艱苦的戰(zhàn)斗。
Thedebonair74-year-old turns over power Wednesday to tough-talking fellow conservative Nicolas Sarkozy, who won election on pledges of a break with the past.
這位74歲、溫文爾雅的法國(guó)總統(tǒng)今天將向新當(dāng)選的總統(tǒng)尼古拉斯·薩科奇正式移交政權(quán)，同為保守人士的薩科奇作風(fēng)果敢，憑著與過(guò)去的法國(guó)決裂的諾言贏得了大選。
We come home after the international break and have Wolves and then it's Arsenal [at the Emirates] – tough games and it's important to keep that five-point advantage and try to increase it.
在國(guó)際比賽日后，我們將在主場(chǎng)對(duì)陣?yán)顷?duì)，然后去客場(chǎng)[酋長(zhǎng)體育場(chǎng)]和阿森納比賽。

You give smaller companies who may be interested in hiring but are having a tough time -- give them a tax break if they hire a veteran.
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Apple had to break-in into tough market, and above all they had to sell the product, very expensive product, it took them many years to come up with the compelling product.
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What remains to be seen is whether Freescale's private-equity backers tough it out in the notoriously volatile semiconductor business or try to break up the company and stem their losses.
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