difficulty
He talked rapidly, but found words with difficulty, making him occasionally stumble over what he was saying.
The patient was experiencing increasingly severe pain and could walk only with great difficulty.
With some difficulty he got the car to start and drove slowly along the middle of the road.
We finished the job, but only with great difficulty.我们非常艰难地完成了工作。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Experiencing difficulties
be
be (caught) between a rock and a hard placeidiom
be climbing the wallsidiom
be for the high jumpidiom
be/come up against a brick wallidiom
fall into something
flounder
frying pan
fumble
fun
jungle
leg
not have a leg to stand onidiom
on a razor edgeidiom
out of the frying pan into the fireidiom
pickle
pressed
rocky
sticky
strand