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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• But he said Israel would be hard put to compensate the Palestinians.
  不过，他表示，以色列对如何补偿巴勒斯坦一事感到为难。
• 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？
• 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 it to explain her disappearance.
  他难以说明她为什麽不见了。
• The students were hard put to it.
  大家还没弄明白。
• 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。