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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He was hard put to it by that problem.
  他因那问题而陷于困境。
• 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。
• The students were hard put to it.
  大家还没弄明白。
• 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。
• 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。