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
- When people asked me to why I would go to study abroad, I was hard put ( to it) to answer the question.
当有人问我为什么要去国外读书，我不知道该怎样回答这个问题。 - 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。 - People should be hard put to it to find suitable words for the slaughter of the innocent Iraq civilians.
人们很难找到恰当的语言来形容对伊拉克无辜平民的屠杀。 - 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。 - I shall be hard put to it to pay my bills this month.
我这个月难以付帐。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Under the circumstances, he was hard put to explain himself.
在这种情况下，他很难为自己辩解。 - 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。