be in difficulty

基本解释

Without your help, I'll be in serious financial difficulties.
我们正在寻找解决财政困难的方法。
If only I'd taken counsel with my mother, I would not be in such difficulties.
如果我与母亲商议就好了，我现在就不会处于困境了。
There will always be difficulties in life. Happiness is the final destination.
生活肯定有困难的时候。开心，才是终点。

instead of pursuing the questions of how exactly that theory should go, notice that if we had that theory ... we could still evaluate in principle-- whatever the practical difficulties might be-- in principle we could still evaluate rival lives.
我们不去研究,那种理论如何发挥作用，即便我们有那种理论,原则上我们仍然可以-,不管实际困难是什么-,原则上我们仍然可以评价其他生活。
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