难以

hard to (predict, imagine etc)

difficult (to...) / problem / difficulty / difficult / not good

disaster / distress / to scold

old variant of 以[yi3]

old variant of 以[yi3]

abbr. for Israel 以色列[Yi3 se4 lie4]

to use / by means of / according to / in order to / because of / at (a certain date or place)

hard to believe / incredible

hard to endure / unbearable

to be too embarrassed to mention sth (idiom) / to find it hard to speak about sth

elusive / hard to pin down / enigmatic

unsusceptible to change / deeply entrenched

hard to understand / incomprehensible

cannot control oneself (idiom) / to be beside oneself

hard to accomplish / difficult to achieve

hard to deal with / hard to handle