I found it hard to make a delicious cake.

我发现做一个美味的蛋糕不容易。

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I found it hard to go up the slope.

我觉得上坡吃力。

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I found it hard to tear myself away from my new friends.

我和新朋友们分别时，觉得恋恋不舍。

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"The game was so far off Test-match intensity that I found it hard, " he said.

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Without goals, I found it hard to trust that anything would get done at all.

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In his lifetime, I found it hard to see him through his niceness, and now, ten years after his death, he seems more enigmatic than ever.

NEWYORKER: Mr. Bones