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

• The students were hard put to it.
  大家还没弄明白。
• He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.
  他难以说明她为什麽不见了。
• You'd be hard put to it to justify your behaviour.
  你难以证明你的行为是正当的。
• 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 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。
• Does that still invite senior to return to turn to narrate teacher, show son to guide to return to for some days and hard put?
  那还请师兄回去转告师父，秀儿过些天就回去，不知如何？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。