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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

  • He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.
    他难以说明她为什麽不见了。
  • 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。
  • Under the circumstances, he was hard put to explain himself.
    在这种情况下,他很难为自己辩解。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • You'd be hard put to it to justify your behaviour.
    你难以证明你的行为是正当的。