hard put
英 [hɑːd pʊt]
美 [hɑːrd pʊt]
陷入困境
英英释义
adj
- facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty
- distressed companies need loans and technical advice
- financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices
- we were hard put to meet the mortgage payment
- found themselves in a bad way financially
双语例句
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - He was hard put to it by that problem.
他因那问题而陷于困境。 - The students were hard put to it.
大家还没弄明白。 - Mr Morton is undoubtedly cleverer than Mr Kirkby, but he will be hard put to match his popularity.
莫顿先生无疑比柯克比先生更聪明，但他将很难像柯克比先生那样受人欢迎。