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

• Thanks for the loan, but you ought to know that I'll be hard put to it to repay you before the end of the month.
  谢谢您给予的贷款，不过你应该知道在月底前我很难把钱还给您。
• Mr Morton is undoubtedly cleverer than Mr Kirkby, but he will be hard put to match his popularity.
  莫顿先生无疑比柯克比先生更聪明，但他将很难像柯克比先生那样受人欢迎。
• 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。
• He was hard put to it by that problem.
  他因那问题而陷于困境。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。