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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。
  • 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 to decide whether to stay in England or go abroad.
    他难以决定究竟是留在英国还是到国外去。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • David has landed on his feet again. He was hard put to it by that problem.
    戴维又侥幸脱离了困境。他因那问题而陷于困境。
  • 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。
  • Of all subjects on this planet, I think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology when it came to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.
    在这个星球上的所有科目中,我想他们很难再发现一门比希腊神学更没用的课程了。
  • 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。
  • 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。