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

• 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'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。
• The students were hard put to it.
  大家还没弄明白。
• You'd be hard put to it to justify your behaviour.
  你难以证明你的行为是正当的。
• 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。
• I shall be hard put to it to pay my bills this month.
  我这个月难以付帐。
• 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 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。
• Karl was hard put to find a good excuse for his absence.
  卡尔无法为他的缺席找到一个像样的借口。
• 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。