be hard done by

I have tried, very hard – but things I put down as my MITs end up being sabotaged by the list of things that HAVE TO BE DONE TODAY!

我很努力的尝试过 但这些计划和目标总是被那些每天必须面对的事情一拖再拖.

Now we know science is not perfectible we do not have to fight so hard to retain a conceptual space for that which cannot be done by logic and mathematics.

现在我们已经知道科学无法尽善尽美，我们无需（像波兰尼那样）那么艰难的斗争以保留逻辑和数学无力施为的概念空间。

But Mr Obama has done himself no favours by fudging the hard budget choices which must ultimately be made.

但是奥巴马在没有得到支持的情况下勉为其难的做了这个不得不做的艰难预算决定。