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

• 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。
• 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。
• The students were hard put to it.
  大家还没弄明白。
• 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。
• 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。
• Does that still invite senior to return to turn to narrate teacher, show son to guide to return to for some days and hard put?
  那还请师兄回去转告师父，秀儿过些天就回去，不知如何？
• 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。
• Under the circumstances, he was hard put to explain himself.
  在这种情况下，他很难为自己辩解。
• 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。
• 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。