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Noun
hard time (countable and uncountable, plural hard times)
- (colloquial, countable) Difficulties; a difficult time; trouble.
They had a hard time putting the self-assembly furniture together without a manual.
2011, Mark Lavorato, Believing Cedric:The day passed without further incident. As did the next. And then the next. Until, eventually, Agnes began to have a hard time believing that anything strange had ever happened at all.
- (colloquial, uncountable) A prison term.
Jack got hard time for his part in the robbery.
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difficulties
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- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 艱難時期／艰难时期 (jiānnán shíqī), 困難／困难 (zh) (kùnnan), 受罪 (zh) (shòuzuì), 麻煩／麻烦 (zh) (máfan)
- Finnish: hankaluudet pl, vaikeudet pl
- French: problèmes (fr) m pl
- German: schwere Zeit
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- Spanish: mal trago m
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