原文：

Beginning in the 1960s American women started entering jobs and work positions that had been taken over almost completely by men. In the 1970s, another pattern appeared in work choices: men began entering jobs and work positions held before by women. When John Smith started in nursing school nine years ago, his father took it hard. "Here is my father, a steelworker, hearing about other steel workers' sons who were becoming soldiers and miners, or getting baseball money to pay for school costs," Mr. Smith remembers. The thought of his son becoming a nurse was too much. Today, Mr. Smith, an official nurse, earns about $30,000 a year at the New Town Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. His father, he says, has changed his mind. Now he tells the fellows he works with that their sons, who can't find jobs even after four years of college, should have become nurses.

1. Take it hard 是“难过”的意思？

不是。take在这里是接受的意思，it指前句内容及上卫校这件事。hard为方式状语，意为很艰难地接受了这件事。可以翻译为：很难接受。

2． “The thought was... … too much.” 请问老师，这里too much 指的是  “想法过分”还是“学费高昂”？

都不是。主语为thought, too much指这个想法too much to accept。还是一想到儿子要当护士，觉得难以接受。

3. Here is my father 怎么翻译？

这个用语本来是介绍某人时使用的。但在这里可能是用来引出他父亲这个话题。我觉得这个用法有些不大常见，不必追究。翻译时，直接和后面作状语的分词短语翻译成一个句子：我父亲，一个钢厂工人，听说别的钢厂工人的儿子们一个个当了兵，当了矿工，或者打棒球挣学费。