哈洛不住地刁难我的新计划。 Harlow keeps raising difficulties over my new plan.
泰勒先生一定会在参院同意任命的听政会上遇到刁难，因联保公司未能发现国际信用贷款银行在全球到处制造丑闻。 Mr.Taylor is in for a grlling at his confirmation hearings on why the Fed failed to uncover the casndalous global rampage by the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.
参议员巧妙地回答了记者提出的几个刁钻的问题。 The senator had to field some tricky questions from reporters.
刁滑的、肆行无忌的且常为不诚实的人（尤指做生意时） Person who is shrewd, unscrupulous and often dishonest, esp in business
要问一些刁钻的问题。 Ask the tough questions.
同时，他的唠叨、斥责、任性、刁难简直没完没了。 There is no end to his babble, his fault-finding, his whims and fancies.
别人都同意这个决议，你为甚麽偏要故意刁难？ Everybody else accepts the decision. Why must you be so bloody-minded?
他们这样挑 和争论就是要故意刁难我们 They are being provocative and controversial just to spite us
行人刁斗风沙暗公主琵琶幽怨多。 We strike the gong in sand-darkened land where wind blows And hear the pipa tell the Princess* secret woes.
故意不予合作的；存心刁难的 Deliberately unhelpful or obstructive
快速投球、投出刁球 A fast, hostile delivery
记者想用那些让人难为情的问题来刁难这位候选人。 The reporter wants to heckle the candidate with those embarrassing question.
刁难某人；找某人的麻烦；整某人；惩罚某人 Make things unpleasant or make trouble for sb; punish sb
她是个刁滑的姑娘. She's a sly puss.
刁钻者，靠不住的人 A person regarded as sneaky or treacherous.
他做了那件事来刁难我。 He did it to spite me.
老刁妇，怪老妪被认为坏脾气的老女人 An old woman considered to be ill-tempered.
要是他掷一个刁钻古怪的慢球，我就给他来个一击得最高分。 If he gives me one of his tricky slow balls, I'll knock it for six.
她发给我的球很刁，没有希望接住。 That was a tricky ball she served to me, there was no hope of returning it.