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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。
  • 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。
  • I shall be hard put to it to pay my bills this month.
    我这个月难以付帐。
  • 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。
  • We are hard put to find a replacement for our assistant.
    我们很难找到一个人来代替我们的助手。
  • Until very recently, scientists were hard put to detect altruistic behavior in chimps, at least in laboratory studies of captive animals.
    以前,科学家们很难发现黑猩猩的利他行为,至少在对囚禁动物的实验研究中是不易发现的。
  • She would be hard put to it to list other films which she liked more.
    她很难举出其他一些能使她感到更为满意的电影。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。