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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

  • The students were hard put to it.
    大家还没弄明白。
  • 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。
  • You'd be hard put to it to justify your behaviour.
    你难以证明你的行为是正当的。
  • Mr Morton is undoubtedly cleverer than Mr Kirkby, but he will be hard put to match his popularity.
    莫顿先生无疑比柯克比先生更聪明,但他将很难像柯克比先生那样受人欢迎。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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?
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.
    他难以说明她为什麽不见了。