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

• 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。
• You'd be hard put to it to make it more cheaply.
  你会发现，很难比这价钱更便宜的了。
• 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。
• I shall be hard put to it to pay my bills this month.
  我这个月难以付帐。
• 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。
• You'd be hard put to it to justify your behaviour.
  你难以证明你的行为是正当的。
• 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。
• He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.
  他难以说明她为什麽不见了。
• I'd be hard put to say exactly why I disliked him.
  我很难启齿说明我到底为什么不喜欢他。
• 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。