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

• 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。
• 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。
• You'd be hard put to it to justify your behaviour.
  你难以证明你的行为是正当的。
• 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。
• He was hard put to it by that problem.
  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。
• 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。
• But he said Israel would be hard put to compensate the Palestinians.
  不过，他表示，以色列对如何补偿巴勒斯坦一事感到为难。
• He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.
  他难以说明她为什麽不见了。
• Under the circumstances, he was hard put to explain himself.
  在这种情况下，他很难为自己辩解。