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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - At times Kennedy was hard put to keep the conversation going.
肯尼迪有时感到很难使话继续下去。 - 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。 - 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。 - She would be hard put to it to list other films which she liked more.
她很难举出其他一些能使她感到更为满意的电影。 - 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。 - 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。