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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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 explain her disappearance.
他难以说明她为什麽不见了。 - You'd be hard put to it to justify your behaviour.
你难以证明你的行为是正当的。 - 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。 - You'd be hard put to it to make it more cheaply.
你会发现,很难比这价钱更便宜的了。 - She would be hard put to it to list other films which she liked more.
她很难举出其他一些能使她感到更为满意的电影。 - Skilled men these, without whom the Confederacy would have been hard put to make pistols, rifles, cannon and powder.
他们是些技术熟练的人,如果没有他们,南部联盟就很难制造手枪、来福枪、大炮和弹药了。