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
- Under the circumstances, he was hard put to explain himself.
在这种情况下，他很难为自己辩解。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - You would be hard put to it to find a pleasanter place than this.
你难以发现比这里更惬意的地方。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - But the scrappy fossil record of early primates-mostly teeth and isolated skeletal bones-left researchers hard put to test these hypotheses.
但是，早期灵长类的化石记录（牙齿和零散的骨骼居多）在太少了，让研究人员难以验证这些假说。