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
- He was hard put to it by that problem.
他因那问题而陷于困境。 - He was hard put to it to decide whether to stay in England or go abroad.
他难以决定究竟是留在英国还是到国外去。 - 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。 - 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。 - Skilled men these, without whom the Confederacy would have been hard put to make pistols, rifles, cannon and powder.
他们是些技术熟练的人，如果没有他们，南部联盟就很难制造手枪、来福枪、大炮和弹药了。 - 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。 - 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。 - The students were hard put to it.
大家还没弄明白。 - Until very recently, scientists were hard put to detect altruistic behavior in chimps, at least in laboratory studies of captive animals.
以前，科学家们很难发现黑猩猩的利他行为，至少在对囚禁动物的实验研究中是不易发现的。 - 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。