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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

  • I shall be hard put to it to pay my bills this month.
    我这个月难以付帐。
  • 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。
  • The students were hard put to it.
    大家还没弄明白。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.
    他难以说明她为什麽不见了。
  • 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。
  • 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。