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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

  • 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 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。
  • 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 to explain her disappearance.
    他难以说明她为什麽不见了。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • He was hard put to it by that problem.
    他因那问题而陷于困境。
  • 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。