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 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。
• 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 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。
• Does that still invite senior to return to turn to narrate teacher, show son to guide to return to for some days and hard put?
  那还请师兄回去转告师父，秀儿过些天就回去，不知如何？
• At times Kennedy was hard put to keep the conversation going.
  肯尼迪有时感到很难使话继续下去。
• 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。
• 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。
• He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.
  他难以说明她为什麽不见了。
• 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。
• But the scrappy fossil record of early primates-mostly teeth and isolated skeletal bones-left researchers hard put to test these hypotheses.
  但是，早期灵长类的化石记录（牙齿和零散的骨骼居多）在太少了，让研究人员难以验证这些假说。