艰难的
6.a stiff hike; a stiff exam; an uphill battle against a popular incumbant.
2.Well, he came back with enthusiasm for work, but he hadn’t get the projects which was promised to be his; he enjoyed life but he had to pay half of his salary for his single apartment; he loved his family, but his wife together with his daughter struggled in his hometown; he came back to look for a kind, trustworthy, human academia but only found a cruel, unreliable and ruthless fact just as he wrote in his last words.
他热爱工作，带着满腔热情归国，但是原先许诺给他的项目却成了水中月；他热爱生活，但是他不能不为他住的单身公寓支付一半的工资；他热爱家庭，但是他的妻子和女儿在他老家艰难度日；他回来想寻一个温情，有信，仁爱的学术圈但却只发现了残酷，无信，无情的现实，就像他遗书中所写的一样。
