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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

  • 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。
  • 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。
  • Even the Greek colonels, Franco, Mussolini or Salazar would have been hard put to reduce nominal wages on the scale required.
    即便是希腊的上校们、佛朗哥(franco)、墨索里尼(mussolini)或萨拉查(salazar)也会很难按所需的力度削减名义薪资。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。