hard put

美 [hɑːrd pʊt]英 [hɑːd pʊt]
  • 陷入困境
hard puthard put

adj

1
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
Synonym: distressed hard-pressed in a bad way(p)

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  1. Mr Morton is undoubtedly cleverer than Mr Kirkby , but he will be hard put to match his popularity .

    莫顿先生无疑比柯克比先生更聪明,但他将很难像柯克比先生那样受人欢迎。

  2. 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。

  3. He was hard put to it by that problem .

    他因那问题而陷于困境。

  4. The students were hard put to it .

    大家还没弄明白。

  5. They 'll be hard put to get here before dawn .

    他们要在天亮之前到达这里有困难。

  6. Under the circumstances , he was hard put to explain himself .

    在这种情况下,他很难为自己辩解。

  7. At times Kennedy was hard put to keep the conversation going .

    肯尼迪有时感到很难使话继续下去。

  8. He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance .

    他难以说明她为什麽不见了。

  9. 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。

  10. I shall be hard put to it to pay my bills this month .

    我这个月难以付帐。

  11. You 'd be hard put to it to justify your behaviour .

    你难以证明你的行为是正当的。

  12. 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。

  13. 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。

  14. 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。

  15. 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。

  16. 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。

  17. 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。

  18. He was hard put to find a good excuse for his lateness in coming to school .

    他很难找到一个上学迟到的借口。

  19. 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。

  20. 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。

  21. 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。

  22. 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。

  23. 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?

  24. Thanks for the loan , but you ought to know that I 'll be hard put to it to repay you before the end of the month .

    谢谢您给予的贷款,不过你应该知道在月底前我很难把钱还给您。

  25. 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。

  26. Even the Greek colonels , Franco , Mussolini or Salazar would have been hard put to reduce nominal wages on the scale required .

    即便是希腊的上校们、佛朗哥(franco)、墨索里尼(mussolini)或萨拉查(salazar)也会很难按所需的力度削减名义薪资。

  27. Of all subjects on this planet , I think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology when it came to securing the keys to an executive bathroom .

    在这个星球上的所有科目中,我想他们很难再发现一门比希腊神学更没用的课程了。

  28. Of all the subjects on this planet , I think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology when it came to securing the keys to an executive bathroom .

    我想,他们也许认为,在全世界所有专业中,不会有比研究希腊神话更没用的专业了,那甚至无法换来一间独立宽敞的卫生间。

  29. 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。

  30. 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。