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.
- 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 - 很难（做某事）
finding sth very difficult to do- You would be hard-pressed to find a better secretary.
找一位更好的秘书很难。
- You would be hard-pressed to find a better secretary.
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 处于困境的;经济窘迫的;承受高压的
If someone ishard-pressed, they are under a great deal of strain and worry, usually because they have not got enough money.- 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。
- The region's hard-pressed consumers are spending less on luxuries.
- ADJ-GRADED 很难做到的;（做…）有困难的
If you will behard-pressed todo something, you will have great difficulty doing it.- This year the airline will be hard-pressed to make a profit.
今年该航空公司将很难赢利。
- This year the airline will be hard-pressed to make a profit.
英英释义
adj
- 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
双语例句
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Mascius: we've been hard-pressed since you left.
自从你走后我们可是四面楚歌。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。