Translation for "duro tener" to english

Duro tener

• hard to have

Translation examples

hard to have

Se vio con los brazos apoyados en el escritorio, hablándole con dulzura, o acompañándola al bar del instituto e invitándola con cortesía a un tetra-brik de zumo de limón. «Es duro tener que hacerse a la idea a tu edad», le diría, «pero la vida se reduce a eso, a sufrir».
He could see himself leaning across his desk, speaking softly, or taking the girl down to the cafeteria and gallantly buying her a carton of lemonade. “It’s hard to have to learn this so young,” he would say. “But loss is what life’s all about.”

Sin embargo, para una mujer de treinta años, que tuvo mando, que condujo ambulancias en combate, bajo el fuego, que trabajó en puestos de evacuación de heridos y en un hospital militar general, resultaba duro tener que dar vuelta todo su cuarto para que su jefa lo inspeccionara los martes por la mañana.
However, for a woman turned thirty who had already been a sister-in-charge, who had helped man a field ambulance under fire in battle conditions, who had worked in casualty clearing stations and a military general hospital, it came hard to have to turn out her room for Matron to inspect every Tuesday morning.

Baldomero Marvís Casares, Tripeiro, el padre de los Gamuzos, decía siempre que tan difícil como perder es ganar, hay que andar por la vida pisando fuerte, sí, pero sin alborotar demasiado ni asoballar al prójimo, puede dar mal resultado asoballar al prójimo porque a veces brillan las puñaladas, no todos los cuerpos tienen buena encarnadura, los hay que no, Nunciña Sabadelle quiso ver mundo y no pasó de las Burgas, uno piensa que ha de comerse todo lo que le echen pero después ve que no, que no se come ni una rosca y tiene que bajar la cabeza para que no lo maten a trallazos, es duro tener que fracasar y aguantarse, las ranas del condado de Tipperary no tienen nada que envidiar a las de la laguna de Antela.
Baldomero Marvís Casares, Tripe-Butcher, the father of the Gamuzos, always said that winning was every bit as hard as losing, you have to tread firmly in this life, indeed, but yet not causing a stir or throwing your weight about, throwing your weight about can lead to bad results for sometimes blows may rain, and not everybody’s wounds heal easily, some don’t, Nuncie Sabadelle wanted to see the world but she didn’t get beyond las Burgas, a person thinks that they have to swallow everything that comes their way but then they see that it’s not so, and will have none of it and then they have to bow to the inevitable so as to avoid a dressing down, it’s hard to have to fail and swallow the consequences, the frogs in the county of Tipperary are not a whit worse off than those in the Antela lagoon.