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
- Drill always ended in the saloons of Jonesboro, and by nightfall so many fights had broken out that the officers were hard put to ward off casualties until the Yankees could inflict them.
结束操练时，常常要在琼斯博罗一些酒馆里演出最后的一幕。到了傍晚，争斗纷纷发生，使得军官们十分棘手，不得不在北方佬打来之前便忙着处理伤亡事件了。 - 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。 - When people asked me to why I would go to study abroad, I was hard put ( to it) to answer the question.
当有人问我为什么要去国外读书，我不知道该怎样回答这个问题。 - 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 it by that problem.
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。 - Mr Morton is undoubtedly cleverer than Mr Kirkby, but he will be hard put to match his popularity.
莫顿先生无疑比柯克比先生更聪明，但他将很难像柯克比先生那样受人欢迎。 - 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。 - 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。 - He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.
他难以说明她为什麽不见了。