hard put
英 [hɑːd pʊt]
美 [hɑːrd pʊt]
陷入困境
英英释义
adj
- facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty
- distressed companies need loans and technical advice
- financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices
- we were hard put to meet the mortgage payment
- found themselves in a bad way financially
双语例句
- Under the circumstances, he was hard put to explain himself.
在这种情况下，他很难为自己辩解。 - Even the Greek colonels, Franco, Mussolini or Salazar would have been hard put to reduce nominal wages on the scale required.
即便是希腊的上校们、佛朗哥（franco）、墨索里尼（mussolini）或萨拉查（salazar）也会很难按所需的力度削减名义薪资。 - When people asked me to why I would go to study abroad, I was hard put ( to it) to answer the question.
当有人问我为什么要去国外读书，我不知道该怎样回答这个问题。 - David has landed on his feet again. He was hard put to it by that problem.
戴维又侥幸脱离了困境。他因那问题而陷于困境。 - Thanks for the loan, but you ought to know that I'll be hard put to it to repay you before the end of the month.
谢谢您给予的贷款，不过你应该知道在月底前我很难把钱还给您。 - Mr Morton is undoubtedly cleverer than Mr Kirkby, but he will be hard put to match his popularity.
莫顿先生无疑比柯克比先生更聪明，但他将很难像柯克比先生那样受人欢迎。 - People should be hard put to it to find suitable words for the slaughter of the innocent Iraq civilians.
人们很难找到恰当的语言来形容对伊拉克无辜平民的屠杀。 - They'll be hard put to get here before dawn.
他们要在天亮之前到达这里有困难。 - But he said Israel would be hard put to compensate the Palestinians.
不过，他表示，以色列对如何补偿巴勒斯坦一事感到为难。 - At times Kennedy was hard put to keep the conversation going.
肯尼迪有时感到很难使话继续下去。