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

• 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。
• Until very recently, scientists were hard put to detect altruistic behavior in chimps, at least in laboratory studies of captive animals.
  以前，科学家们很难发现黑猩猩的利他行为，至少在对囚禁动物的实验研究中是不易发现的。
• 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。
• We are hard put to find a replacement for our assistant.
  我们很难找到一个人来代替我们的助手。
• You'd be hard put to it to justify your behaviour.
  你难以证明你的行为是正当的。
• 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。
• He was hard put to find a good excuse for his lateness in coming to school.
  他很难找到一个上学迟到的借口。
• 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。
• Under the circumstances, he was hard put to explain himself.
  在这种情况下，他很难为自己辩解。
• He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.
  他难以说明她为什麽不见了。