You need hard currency to get anything halfway decent.

你得有硬通货才能买到像样点儿的东西。

The country is running short of hard currency to pay for imports.

该国目前缺乏硬通货来支付进口货物。

"Under these circumstances it is hard to see why the RMB should be a very strong currency," he points out.

在目前如此的环境之下，是很难理解为什么人民币应该是一个非常强有力的货币，“他指出这一点。”

Over all, then, even as both Ireland and Nevada have been especially hard-luck cases within their respective currency zones, Nevada’s medium-term prospects look much better.

总的来讲，尽管爱尔兰和内华达州在其各自的货币范围内均为非常倒霉的案例，但看来内华达的中期前景要好得多。

Members of a new, “hard” European currency would leave behind a stock of depreciating euro debt and might be rewarded by lower borrowing costs on debt issues in the new currency.

新的硬欧洲通货的成员将面对一些贬值的欧元债务并且采用新货币的好处是债务的借贷成本将减少。