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
- I shall be hard put to it to pay my bills this month.
我这个月难以付帐。 - 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。 - 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。 - Under the circumstances, he was hard put to explain himself.
在这种情况下，他很难为自己辩解。 - 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。 - He was hard put to find a good excuse for his lateness in coming to school.
他很难找到一个上学迟到的借口。 - 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。 - 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。 - David has landed on his feet again. He was hard put to it by that problem.
戴维又侥幸脱离了困境。他因那问题而陷于困境。