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

• 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。
• You'd be hard put to it to justify your behaviour.
  你难以证明你的行为是正当的。
• 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。
• The students were hard put to it.
  大家还没弄明白。
• I shall be hard put to it to pay my bills this month.
  我这个月难以付帐。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.
  他难以说明她为什麽不见了。