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 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。
• Karl was hard put to find a good excuse for his absence.
  卡尔无法为他的缺席找到一个像样的借口。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• I shall be hard put to it to pay my bills this month.
  我这个月难以付帐。
• Under the circumstances, he was hard put to explain himself.
  在这种情况下，他很难为自己辩解。
• He was hard put to it by that problem.
  他因那问题而陷于困境。