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 by that problem.
  他因那问题而陷于困境。
• 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。
• 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 would be hard put to it to find a pleasanter place than this.
  你难以发现比这里更惬意的地方。
• 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。
• 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。
• Even the Greek colonels, Franco, Mussolini or Salazar would have been hard put to reduce nominal wages on the scale required.
  即便是希腊的上校们、佛朗哥（franco）、墨索里尼（mussolini）或萨拉查（salazar）也会很难按所需的力度削减名义薪资。
• 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。
• The students were hard put to it.
  大家还没弄明白。