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

• 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。
• 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。
• The students were hard put to it.
  大家还没弄明白。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Under the circumstances, he was hard put to explain himself.
  在这种情况下，他很难为自己辩解。
• 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。