潜水员向海岸走去时，铅坠和氧气罐使他们步履维艰。

Leadweights and air cylinders encumbered the divers as they walked to the shore

那个老人下台阶时步履维艰。

The old man had difficulty in moving down the stairs.

尽管中国的国内生产总值（GDP）迅速增长，但中国股票市场的发展却步履维艰。

While its gross domestic product has shot up, China's equity market has languished.

全美汽车工人联合会（United Auto Workers）昨日号召针对通用汽车（General Motors）的美国业务举行罢工，令这家步履维艰的汽车制造商的扭亏计划陷入危境。

The United Auto Workers union yesterday called a strike against General Motors' US operations, putting the struggling carmaker's turnround plans in jeopardy.

此外，P2P下载使盗版软件和非法影音制品被无限制的传播，使对知识产权的保护更加步履维艰。

Furthermore, P2P downloading spreads pirate software and illegal audio/ video products unlimitedly that makes intellectual property protection more difficult.

工行被视为仅好于中国农业银行（ABC），而农行的改革迄今一直步履维艰。

ICBC was regarded as being ahead only of Agricultural Bank of China, which has so far proved to be too difficult to reform.

雅虎的在华新战略始于两年前。当时，雅虎把自己步履维艰的业务并入了一家中国电子商务公司&阿里巴巴（Alibaba）。

The new approach to China began two years ago, when Yahoo folded its own stumbling operations there into a local e-commerce company, Alibaba.

但在过去十年中，随着数据存储的成本大幅下降，EMC步履维艰，它采取的一些收购行动也未能扭转其命运。

The company has struggled over the last decade as the cost of data storage has plummeted, and as additional acquisitions failed to reverse its fortunes.

谷歌（Google）、贝宝（Paypal）等巨头、无线运营商、大型连锁店，以及Square等前途光明的初创公司，在推广移动钱包上都步履维艰。

Giants like Google, PayPal, wireless carriers, and major retail chains, as well as promising startups like Square, have all struggled to make wallets popular.

近年来，WTO多哈回合谈判步履维艰以及坎昆会议的受挫，加速了全球区域经济合作的发展，区域贸易协定已成为国际经济合作的一种重要法律形式。

In recent years, WTO negotiation went on with great difficulties in Doha and even suffered frustrations in Cancun conference, which has quickened global economic cooperation within regions. Regional trade agreement has become an important form for international economy cooperation.