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
- 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。 - Karl was hard put to find a good excuse for his absence.
卡尔无法为他的缺席找到一个像样的借口。 - 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。 - 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。 - You would be hard put to it to find a pleasanter place than this.
你难以发现比这里更惬意的地方。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。