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
- 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。 - Under the circumstances, he was hard put to explain himself.
在这种情况下，他很难为自己辩解。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - I shall be hard put to it to pay my bills this month.
我这个月难以付帐。 - He was hard put to it to decide whether to stay in England or go abroad.
他难以决定究竟是留在英国还是到国外去。 - 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。 - 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。