hard put

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. 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。
4. 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。
5. I shall be hard put to it to pay my bills this month.
   我这个月难以付帐。
6. 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。
7. 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？
8. 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。
9. 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。
10. 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。
11. 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。
12. 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。
13. 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。
14. He was hard put to it by that problem.
    他因那问题而陷于困境。
15. 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。
16. 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。
17. He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.
    他难以说明她为什麽不见了。
18. 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。
19. 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。
20. Under the circumstances, he was hard put to explain himself.
    在这种情况下，他很难为自己辩解。
21. 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。
22. 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。
23. 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。
24. 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。
25. Skilled men these, without whom the Confederacy would have been hard put to make pistols, rifles, cannon and powder.
    他们是些技术熟练的人，如果没有他们，南部联盟就很难制造手枪、来福枪、大炮和弹药了。
26. The students were hard put to it.
    大家还没弄明白。
27. 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。
28. You'd be hard put to it to justify your behaviour.
    你难以证明你的行为是正当的。
29. 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。
30. 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。

adj

1. 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)