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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

  • 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。
  • He was hard put to it by that problem.
    他因那问题而陷于困境。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.
    他难以说明她为什麽不见了。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • I shall be hard put to it to pay my bills this month.
    我这个月难以付帐。
  • You'd be hard put to it to justify your behaviour.
    你难以证明你的行为是正当的。