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

• You would be hard-pressed to find a better secretary.
  找一位更好的秘书很难。
• 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？
• She was hard-pressed to make ends meet.
  她很难使得收支平衡。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• This year the airline will be hard-pressed to make a profit.
  今年该航空公司将很难赢利。
• 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。