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
- 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。 - He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.
他难以说明她为什麽不见了。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - I shall be hard put to it to pay my bills this month.
我这个月难以付帐。 - You'd be hard put to it to justify your behaviour.
你难以证明你的行为是正当的。 - 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。 - He was hard put to it by that problem.
他因那问题而陷于困境。