hard-pressed

英 [ˌhɑːd ˈprest]

美 [ˌhɑːrd ˈprest]

adj.  处于强大压力的(尤指工作重、时间紧迫、资金少); 很难(做某事)

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牛津词典

adj.

• 处于强大压力的（尤指工作重、时间紧迫、资金少）
  having a lot of problems, especially too much work, and too little time or money
• 很难（做某事）
  finding sth very difficult to do
  1. You would be hard-pressed to find a better secretary.
     找一位更好的秘书很难。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 处于困境的;经济窘迫的;承受高压的
  If someone ishard-pressed, they are under a great deal of strain and worry, usually because they have not got enough money.
  1. The region's hard-pressed consumers are spending less on luxuries.
     该地区的消费者经济窘迫，在奢侈品上的开销比以前少了。
• ADJ-GRADED 很难做到的;（做…）有困难的
  If you will behard-pressed todo something, you will have great difficulty doing it.
  1. This year the airline will be hard-pressed to make a profit.
     今年该航空公司将很难赢利。

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 putin a bad way(p)

双语例句

• Move too quickly and his reflationary experiment might fizzle out as hard-pressed consumers snap shut their wallets.
  如果动作太快，随着财务紧张的消费者捂紧钱包，安倍的通货再膨胀实验可能会不了了之。
• Its legendary bloopers are often no worse than the errors made by hard-pressed humans.
  其传奇般的灾难片往往不亚于由捉襟见肘人类作出的错误。
• Without that link conservationists have been hard-pressed to make an economic argument for restoration projects large and small.
  由于这个原因，自然保护主义者不得不忙于为大大小小的生态系统恢复项目做经济论证。
• Ping'an, population 800, may soon be hard-pressed to maintain its rustic charm.
  有着800人口的平安可能将很难保持其质朴的魅力。
• Mascius: we've been hard-pressed since you left.
  自从你走后我们可是四面楚歌。
• The fall in oil prices is a great bounty to hard-pressed consumers.
  对手头紧张的消费者来说，油价下跌是一个巨大的福音。
• A year ago most non-specialists would probably have been hard-pressed to explain what a sovereign wealth fund was.
  一年前，多数非专业人士可能很难解释清楚究竟什么是主权财富基金。
• Before string theory, physicists were hard-pressed to imagine any mechanism that could so cleanly eliminate the singularity.
  弦论出现之前，物理学家始终缺乏灵感，去想像任何能够把奇异点彻底消除的机制。
• There may be political pressure to redirect money to hard-pressed rural constituencies.
  或许存在将资金重新导向压力重重的农村选区的政治压力。
• For example, try to remember what happened to you every day last week, chances are that nothing extraordinary happened, so you will be hard-pressed to recall the specific things you did on Monday, Tuesday, etc.
  举例来说，请你努力回想一下上周每天你都做了些什么事情。什么特别的事情也没有发生的概率很大，所以你会觉得回忆自己在周一、周二等日子里具体做了哪些事情非常困难。