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

• 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。
• You'd be hard put to it to justify your behaviour.
  你难以证明你的行为是正当的。
• We are hard put to find a replacement for our assistant.
  我们很难找到一个人来代替我们的助手。
• 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。
• I shall be hard put to it to pay my bills this month.
  我这个月难以付帐。
• 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。
• 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。
• Under the circumstances, he was hard put to explain himself.
  在这种情况下，他很难为自己辩解。
• 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。
• 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。