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
- I'd be hard put to say exactly why I disliked him.
我很难启齿说明我到底为什么不喜欢他。 - Of all subjects on this planet, I think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology when it came to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.
在这个星球上的所有科目中,我想他们很难再发现一门比希腊神学更没用的课程了。 - 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。 - 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。 - You'd be hard put to it to justify your behaviour.
你难以证明你的行为是正当的。 - 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。 - Even the Greek colonels, Franco, Mussolini or Salazar would have been hard put to reduce nominal wages on the scale required.
即便是希腊的上校们、佛朗哥(franco)、墨索里尼(mussolini)或萨拉查(salazar)也会很难按所需的力度削减名义薪资。 - 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? - 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。 - 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。