hard-pressed

英 [ˌhɑːd ˈprest] 美 [ˌhɑːrd ˈprest]

adj.  处于强大压力的(尤指工作重、时间紧迫、资金少); 很难(做某事)

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牛津词典

adj.

  1. 处于强大压力的（尤指工作重、时间紧迫、资金少）
    having a lot of problems, especially too much work, and too little time or money
    1. 很难（做某事）
      finding sth very difficult to do
      1. You would be hard-pressed to find a better secretary.
        找一位更好的秘书很难。
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    柯林斯词典

    1. ADJ-GRADED 处于困境的;经济窘迫的;承受高压的
      If someone is hard-pressed, they are under a great deal of strain and worry, usually because they have not got enough money.
      1. The region's hard-pressed consumers are spending less on luxuries.
        该地区的消费者经济窘迫，在奢侈品上的开销比以前少了。
    2. ADJ-GRADED 很难做到的;（做…）有困难的
      If you will be hard-pressed to do something, you will have great difficulty doing it.
      1. This year the airline will be hard-pressed to make a profit.
        今年该航空公司将很难赢利。
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    双语例句

    1. Community projects are being axed by hard-pressed social services departments.
      处于困境的社会服务部门被迫砍掉社区项目。
    2. This year the airline will be hard-pressed to make a profit.
      今年该航空公司将很难赢利。
    3. In such circumstances, the recent fall in the price of oil ( and food) should be a boon for hard-pressed consumers.
      在这种环境下，近期油价（和粮价）的下跌对那些被价格上涨紧追的消费者来说应该是个恩惠。
    4. You'd be hard-pressed to find water as blue as that which laps at its shores.
      你很难再找到什么地方的水，能蓝得像这里拍打着的堤岸海水。
    5. For hard-pressed Japanese component makers manufacturing in Japan it has been one long competitive struggle.
      对于正身处困境的日本零部件制造业来说，这将是一场艰苦卓绝的长期斗争。
    6. I saw a different person there, another human being who was as hard-pressed for time as I always am.
      我看到了一个截然不同的人，另一个和我一样为时间饱受压力的人。
    7. You'd be hard-pressed to find a consensus among industry experts on the matter.
      行业专家们针对这个问题还没有形成共识。
    8. Other firms had already been hard-pressed to meet Apple's price, battery life and hardware features, let alone its swish operating system, copious media catalogues and the internet's biggest app store.
      苹果产品的价格、电池续航时间还有硬件，更不用说其华丽的操作系统、丰富的多媒体资料和最大的网上应用商店，这些都给了其他公司很大的压力。
    9. For example, try to remember what happened to you every day last week, chances are that nothing extraordinary happened, so you will be hard-pressed to recall the specific things you did on Monday, Tuesday, etc.
      举例来说，请你努力回想一下上周每天你都做了些什么事情。什么特别的事情也没有发生的概率很大，所以你会觉得回忆自己在周一、周二等日子里具体做了哪些事情非常困难。
    10. Ping'an, population 800, may soon be hard-pressed to maintain its rustic charm.
      有着800人口的平安可能将很难保持其质朴的魅力。
    11. Move too quickly and his reflationary experiment might fizzle out as hard-pressed consumers snap shut their wallets.
      如果动作太快，随着财务紧张的消费者捂紧钱包，安倍的通货再膨胀实验可能会不了了之。
    12. She was hard-pressed to make ends meet.
      她很难使得收支平衡。
    13. There may be political pressure to redirect money to hard-pressed rural constituencies.
      或许存在将资金重新导向压力重重的农村选区的政治压力。
    14. Before string theory, physicists were hard-pressed to imagine any mechanism that could so cleanly eliminate the singularity.
      弦论出现之前，物理学家始终缺乏灵感，去想像任何能够把奇异点彻底消除的机制。
    15. Hard-pressed European rivals, spoiling for a fight, may yet find a use for vendor financing again.
      压力之下的欧洲对手跃跃欲试，它们可能会为卖方融资再次找到用武之地。
    16. You'd be hard-pressed to find a mean picture in our magazine.
      你会很难在我们的杂志里找到贱照片。
    17. Without that link conservationists have been hard-pressed to make an economic argument for restoration projects large and small.
      由于这个原因，自然保护主义者不得不忙于为大大小小的生态系统恢复项目做经济论证。
    18. A year ago most non-specialists would probably have been hard-pressed to explain what a sovereign wealth fund was.
      一年前，多数非专业人士可能很难解释清楚究竟什么是主权财富基金。
    19. The fall in oil prices is a great bounty to hard-pressed consumers.
      对手头紧张的消费者来说，油价下跌是一个巨大的福音。
    20. They urged reduced utility rates for hard-pressed residential users.
      他们强烈要求对经济困难的居民用户降低电力煤气价格。
    21. On the last occasion he was hard-pressed to ensure that a supportive government emerged.
      在上一次选举中，他对操纵政府已经感到力不从心。
    22. They will be hard-pressed to use such arguments this time round but Washington and Whitehall are still pro-market and the investment banks, whether independent or part of larger financial conglomerates, may yet receive more lenient treatment than seems likely today.
      这一次，它们很难再提出此类论点，但英美两国政府仍然“亲市场”，而投资银行无论是作为独立实体还是大型金融集团的一部分受到的待遇也许会比今天所看上去的更加仁慈。
    23. The latest education reforms have put extra pressure on teachers who are already hard-pressed.
      最新的教育改革对已经倍感压力的老师们又加诸了额外的压力。
    24. Mascius: we've been hard-pressed since you left.
      自从你走后我们可是四面楚歌。
    25. The merger cases show even hard-pressed firms can find pockets of pricing power.
      这些公司的兼并案例告诉我们即使巨大的压力下，它们仍然能够找到很多定价方法。
    26. Its legendary bloopers are often no worse than the errors made by hard-pressed humans.
      其传奇般的灾难片往往不亚于由捉襟见肘人类作出的错误。
    27. So what should the industry's hard-pressed directors do when they need to find senior staff?
      因此当捉襟见肘的行业主管需要寻找高级员工的时候他们应该做什么呢？
    28. You'd be hard-pressed to meet a nicer person.
      你很难碰到一个更好的人。
    29. You would be hard-pressed to find a better secretary.
      找一位更好的秘书很难。
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    英英释义

    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 putin a bad way(p)

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