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

• 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。
• The students were hard put to it.
  大家还没弄明白。
• 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。
• 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。
• Now and again he had managed to borrow a few shillings from old pals, who would have lent more only that it was a drought year and they were hard put themselves.
  有几次他从一些老朋友那里借到几个先令，他们愿意能多借几个钱给金，可是年景这样不好，谁都吃不消。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He was hard put to it to decide whether to stay in England or go abroad.
  他难以决定究竟是留在英国还是到国外去。
• You'd be hard put to it to justify your behaviour.
  你难以证明你的行为是正当的。