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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

  • Now and again he had managed to borrow a few shillings from old pals, who would have lent more only that it was a drought year and they were hard put themselves.
    有几次他从一些老朋友那里借到几个先令,他们愿意能多借几个钱给金,可是年景这样不好,谁都吃不消。
  • He was hard put to it by that problem.
    他因那问题而陷于困境。
  • 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。
  • Does that still invite senior to return to turn to narrate teacher, show son to guide to return to for some days and hard put?
    那还请师兄回去转告师父,秀儿过些天就回去,不知如何?
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • I'd be hard put to say exactly why I disliked him.
    我很难启齿说明我到底为什么不喜欢他。
  • 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。
  • 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。