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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - He was hard put to it by that problem.
他因那问题而陷于困境。 - 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。 - 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。 - You'd be hard put to it to justify your behaviour.
你难以证明你的行为是正当的。 - 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。