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

• Under the circumstances, he was hard put to explain himself.
  在这种情况下，他很难为自己辩解。
• 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。
• 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。
• But he said Israel would be hard put to compensate the Palestinians.
  不过，他表示，以色列对如何补偿巴勒斯坦一事感到为难。
• 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。
• 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。
• The students were hard put to it.
  大家还没弄明白。
• 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。
• 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。
• You'd be hard put to it to justify your behaviour.
  你难以证明你的行为是正当的。