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hard put

英 [hɑːd pʊt]

美 [hɑːrd pʊt]

陷入困境

英英释义

adj

  • facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty
    1. distressed companies need loans and technical advice
    2. financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices
    3. we were hard put to meet the mortgage payment
    4. found themselves in a bad way financially
    Synonym:distressedhard-pressedin a bad way(p)

双语例句

  • You would be hard put to it to find a pleasanter place than this.
    你难以发现比这里更惬意的地方。
  • 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。
  • Now and again he had managed to borrow a few shillings from old pals, who would have lent more only that it was a drought year and they were hard put themselves.
    有几次他从一些老朋友那里借到几个先令,他们愿意能多借几个钱给金,可是年景这样不好,谁都吃不消。
  • You'd be hard put to it to make it more cheaply.
    你会发现,很难比这价钱更便宜的了。
  • Drill always ended in the saloons of Jonesboro, and by nightfall so many fights had broken out that the officers were hard put to ward off casualties until the Yankees could inflict them.
    结束操练时,常常要在琼斯博罗一些酒馆里演出最后的一幕。到了傍晚,争斗纷纷发生,使得军官们十分棘手,不得不在北方佬打来之前便忙着处理伤亡事件了。
  • Does that still invite senior to return to turn to narrate teacher, show son to guide to return to for some days and hard put?
    那还请师兄回去转告师父,秀儿过些天就回去,不知如何?
  • He was hard put to it to decide whether to stay in England or go abroad.
    他难以决定究竟是留在英国还是到国外去。
  • 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。
  • Skilled men these, without whom the Confederacy would have been hard put to make pistols, rifles, cannon and powder.
    他们是些技术熟练的人,如果没有他们,南部联盟就很难制造手枪、来福枪、大炮和弹药了。
  • 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。