hard-pressed

英 [ˌhɑːd ˈprest]

美 [ˌhɑːrd ˈprest]

adj.  处于强大压力的(尤指工作重、时间紧迫、资金少); 很难(做某事)

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牛津词典

adj.

• 处于强大压力的（尤指工作重、时间紧迫、资金少）
  having a lot of problems, especially too much work, and too little time or money
• 很难（做某事）
  finding sth very difficult to do
  1. You would be hard-pressed to find a better secretary.
     找一位更好的秘书很难。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 处于困境的;经济窘迫的;承受高压的
  If someone ishard-pressed, they are under a great deal of strain and worry, usually because they have not got enough money.
  1. The region's hard-pressed consumers are spending less on luxuries.
     该地区的消费者经济窘迫，在奢侈品上的开销比以前少了。
• ADJ-GRADED 很难做到的;（做…）有困难的
  If you will behard-pressed todo something, you will have great difficulty doing it.
  1. This year the airline will be hard-pressed to make a profit.
     今年该航空公司将很难赢利。

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 putin a bad way(p)

双语例句

• The fall in oil prices is a great bounty to hard-pressed consumers.
  对手头紧张的消费者来说，油价下跌是一个巨大的福音。
• This year the airline will be hard-pressed to make a profit.
  今年该航空公司将很难赢利。
• I saw a different person there, another human being who was as hard-pressed for time as I always am.
  我看到了一个截然不同的人，另一个和我一样为时间饱受压力的人。
• Move too quickly and his reflationary experiment might fizzle out as hard-pressed consumers snap shut their wallets.
  如果动作太快，随着财务紧张的消费者捂紧钱包，安倍的通货再膨胀实验可能会不了了之。
• You'd be hard-pressed to find a mean picture in our magazine.
  你会很难在我们的杂志里找到贱照片。
• You'd be hard-pressed to meet a nicer person.
  你很难碰到一个更好的人。
• Hard-pressed European rivals, spoiling for a fight, may yet find a use for vendor financing again.
  压力之下的欧洲对手跃跃欲试，它们可能会为卖方融资再次找到用武之地。
• For hard-pressed Japanese component makers manufacturing in Japan it has been one long competitive struggle.
  对于正身处困境的日本零部件制造业来说，这将是一场艰苦卓绝的长期斗争。
• Without that link conservationists have been hard-pressed to make an economic argument for restoration projects large and small.
  由于这个原因，自然保护主义者不得不忙于为大大小小的生态系统恢复项目做经济论证。
• The merger cases show even hard-pressed firms can find pockets of pricing power.
  这些公司的兼并案例告诉我们即使巨大的压力下，它们仍然能够找到很多定价方法。