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
  1. You would be hard-pressed to find a better secretary.
     找一位更好的秘书很难。

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.
  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。
• 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.
  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。

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 putin a bad way(p)

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• You would be hard-pressed to find a better secretary.
  找一位更好的秘书很难。
• 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。
• Mascius: we've been hard-pressed since you left.
  自从你走后我们可是四面楚歌。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。