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

• Drill always ended in the saloons of Jonesboro, and by nightfall so many fights had broken out that the officers were hard put to ward off casualties until the Yankees could inflict them.
  结束操练时，常常要在琼斯博罗一些酒馆里演出最后的一幕。到了傍晚，争斗纷纷发生，使得军官们十分棘手，不得不在北方佬打来之前便忙着处理伤亡事件了。
• I shall be hard put to it to pay my bills this month.
  我这个月难以付帐。
• 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。
• The students were hard put to it.
  大家还没弄明白。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。