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

• You'd be hard put to it to justify your behaviour.
  你难以证明你的行为是正当的。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He was hard put to it by that problem.
  他因那问题而陷于困境。