hard put
英 [hɑːd pʊt]
美 [hɑːrd pʊt]
陷入困境
英英释义
adj
- facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty
- distressed companies need loans and technical advice
- financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices
- we were hard put to meet the mortgage payment
- found themselves in a bad way financially
双语例句
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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？ - 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。 - The students were hard put to it.
大家还没弄明白。 - Under the circumstances, he was hard put to explain himself.
在这种情况下，他很难为自己辩解。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。