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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

  • 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。
  • The students were hard put to it.
    大家还没弄明白。
  • But the scrappy fossil record of early primates-mostly teeth and isolated skeletal bones-left researchers hard put to test these hypotheses.
    但是,早期灵长类的化石记录(牙齿和零散的骨骼居多)在太少了,让研究人员难以验证这些假说。
  • 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?
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • Of all subjects on this planet, I think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology when it came to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.
    在这个星球上的所有科目中,我想他们很难再发现一门比希腊神学更没用的课程了。
  • 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。
  • 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。