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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• But the scrappy fossil record of early primates-mostly teeth and isolated skeletal bones-left researchers hard put to test these hypotheses.
  但是，早期灵长类的化石记录（牙齿和零散的骨骼居多）在太少了，让研究人员难以验证这些假说。
• They'll be hard put to get here before dawn.
  他们要在天亮之前到达这里有困难。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He was hard put to it by that problem.
  他因那问题而陷于困境。