tough break

基本解释

Plug-in cars face a long, tough battle to break beyond a small but devoted audience of Hollywood stars, eccentrics and passionate environmentalists.
在赢得了诸如忠实的好莱坞影星追星族、怪人和热情的环保人士等小部分人之外，充电汽车仍面临着漫长而艰苦的战斗。
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.
这位74岁、温文尔雅的法国总统今天将向新当选的总统尼古拉斯·萨科奇正式移交政权，同为保守人士的萨科奇作风果敢，凭着与过去的法国决裂的诺言赢得了大选。
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.
在国际比赛日后，我们将在主场对阵狼队，然后去客场[酋长体育场]和阿森纳比赛。

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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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