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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

  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • She would be hard put to it to list other films which she liked more.
    她很难举出其他一些能使她感到更为满意的电影。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • I'd be hard put to say exactly why I disliked him.
    我很难启齿说明我到底为什么不喜欢他。