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
- 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 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。 - Karl was hard put to find a good excuse for his absence.
卡尔无法为他的缺席找到一个像样的借口。 - He was hard put to it by that problem.
他因那问题而陷于困境。 - 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。 - The students were hard put to it.
大家还没弄明白。 - 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。 - 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。 - You'd be hard put to it to justify your behaviour.
你难以证明你的行为是正当的。 - 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。