The wind was strong. We struggled our way ahead with the help of a safety lamp.
家里又添了一个吃口，日子过得更加艰难了。
The family adds a mouth to feed, and life is even harder.
赤地千里，周围的老百姓生活非常艰难。
The people in the neighborhood lead a difficult life as they are surrounded by barren land that stretches for miles.
这些丛残的整理非常艰难，我们一定要有耐心。
Sorting out fragment pieces is difficult work that requires us patience.
他拖着断肢，艰难行走。
With one of his legs cut off, he walks with difficulty.
他们孤孀相依为命，生活过得很艰难。
This widow and her child depend on each other for survival, life is really hard for them.
她寡居生活了十来年，日子过得很艰难。
She has been living alone for more than ten years, life is very hard for her.
认定了这条路就要坚定地走下去，遇到什么艰难险阻也绝不回还。
Once you have decided the way to go, you should move forward without hesitation. Whatever hardship you may be confronted with, you should never return to the starting point.
提起那些艰难的往事她就酸辛不已。
It makes her sad to mention those difficult past events.
Both adjectives 艰难 and 困难 indicate “complication, resistance, predicament, poverty-stricken, etc.” but the scale and degree of difficulties denoted by 艰难 refers in particular to the great hardships in starting an undertaking.
The noun 困难 has the same meaning of the adjective and can function as the subject or object of a sentence. We usually say 有困难 yǒu kùnnán, 遇到了困难 yùdàole kùnnán, 克服困难 kèfú kùnnán, 困难不小 kùnnán bù xiǎo, etc. while 艰难 is usually found in phrases like 艰难困苦 jiānnán kùnkǔ, 艰难险阻 jiānnán xiánzǔ, etc.
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