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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - You'd be hard put to it to justify your behaviour.
你难以证明你的行为是正当的。 - 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。 - 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。 - Under the circumstances, he was hard put to explain himself.
在这种情况下，他很难为自己辩解。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。