hard-pressed

hard-pressed

美 　英

• adj.处于强大压力下的（尤指工作重、时间紧、资金少）；很难（做某事）
• 网络处于困境的；被催逼的；拮据的

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Hard pressed by his father, John told the truth in spite of his wife's warnings.

约翰被他老子追急了，也就不顾不得老婆的叮嘱，说出了真情实事。

Orange offers a life to be lived to the full, too often not the safe and reliable pair of hands the hard pressed coach yearns for.

黄色给生命带来活力，但常常不是重压下教练们所希望得到的那双安全可靠的手。

Even the most cohesive and determined government would be hard-pressed to get out of this kind of fiscal mess.

就算是最具凝聚力、最坚定的政府也很难走出如此困境。

Although her husband has promised again and again to be faithful to her, Mary is still hard pressed to let her defenses down.

尽管她的丈夫再三承诺会对她忠诚，玛丽还是很难放下戒备心理。

The blue ink scratched its way across the paper, as if hard pressed to recall the individual shapes of letters.

蓝墨水在整张纸上艰难涂写，就好像被逼迫着记起每一个字母的形状。

It was a wonderful chat, but we'll be hard pressed to meet again as this was a chance encounter at both of our non-regular hour.

聊的好开心，不过，再见的缘份不大，因为今天都是在我们的意外时间才偶遇。

The business owners would be hard pressed to argue they honestly believed they were entitled to such a huge sum of money, she said.

她说，企业主们将焦头烂额，很难出示证据证表明他们所深信不疑的事情----他们对那笔庞大资金的所有权。

With markets in Europe and the U. S likely to grow slowly over the next few years, China will be hard-pressed to sustain that pace.

在未来几年欧美市场很可能放缓的情况下，中国将难以保持这样的增速。

At the age of six, while I was eating a big apple, something hard pressed against my tongue. I spat it out. It was a tooth.

我六岁那年，有一次在吃一个大苹果时，有个东西压在了我的舌头上，吐出来，原来是颗牙齿。

Though hard pressed from fighting on various fronts, the British sent some Corvettes to help the American situation.

虽然承受各条前线所带来的压力，英国人还是向美国人排出了一些老式军舰来应付局面。

Syndicating sales has several advantages for a hard-pressed debt manager. To start with, it clears up the clutter.

财团销售对于处于困境的债务管理人来说有些有利的因素。

The result has been a Gordian knot of preconditions for resuming talks that even the most ardent expert would be hard-pressed to figure out.

结果就成了恢复会谈前提条件的难题，即使是最热心的专家也难以解决。

Like many hard-pressed city school systems, New York's was not equipped to handle students who did not fit the white.

纽约市的中学和许多财政拮据、师资匮乏的城市中学一样，没有条件来培养非白种人。

For a time you will be hard pressed to keep up with it, which is why we ask you to keep an open mind.

一段时间里你们会很难继续跟上它，这就是为什么我们要求你们保持一个开放的头脑。

100m a year. For hard-pressed airlines running on razor-thin margins, that really would be astronomical.

一亿美元。对于处在囧境的航空公司的微薄的盈利来说，那可是个天文数字了。

For a parent, and finally mother to understand, life is really good difficult, this hard pressed we feel breath.

直到有一天，我们身一.为人父人母，终于调查到，生涯其实真的好难，这种困难的觉得压得我们喘但是气来。

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。

With this sum, she had to cover her remaining living expenses. She was hard-pressed to make ends meet.

这么一点儿钱，她必须兼顾到她剩下的生活开支。她很难使得收支平衡。

Although negotiators are optimistic, the details are complex enough that they may be hard-pressed to get a deal at all.

虽然谈判代表持乐观态度，但协议细节如此复杂，他们所面临的困难很可能使他们无法取得一致。

I have so much to do today and I'm hard pressed to get it all done before noon!

我今天要做的事很多，要在中午前全部做完實在令我倍感壓力！

If you are only putting achievements on your resume, you are going to be hard-pressed to fill a whole page.

如果在简历上只写个人成绩，很难把一整张纸填满。

Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality.

这不是要别人轻省，你们受累，而是要大家都均等。

"Though we weren't practicing pristine Islam, " he says, "you'd be pretty hard-pressed to say that we didn't think we were Muslims. "

他说：“虽然我们当时所从事的并非本来意义上的伊斯兰教，要说我们当时不认为自己是穆斯林，你恐怕会感到难以启齿。”

At the moment, we are hard pressed to find negative aspects to the quarter, only a bunch of interesting positives.

但目前我们很难找出影响当季的负面因素，结果只看到许许多多有意思的正面因素。

Most users would be hard-pressed to clear their HTTP authentication credentials for a site by any means other than logging out.

用户常常被要求以某种方式清除他们对某个站点的HTTP身份验证凭证。

But even a strong groundswell of sympathy around the world will be hard pressed to keep Japan's food flag flying high.

但即使全世界都对日本的遭遇同情有加，日本仍将很难在食品领域继续昂首阔步地行进。

With only a single specimen he was hard pressed to prove it was a new species, so the fish remained, unnamed, on his desk for 25 years.

当时只有一个标本，很难证明这就是新物种，所以，那条鱼虽被保存，但一直未被命名，在他的办公桌上呆了25年之久。

But they may also be hard pressed to maintain prices as publishers try to lure early adopters and compete with free Web offerings.

但是他们要求的价格让自己处境艰难，这主要源于出版商吸引早期客户并与免费提供信息的网站竞争。

I would be hard pressed to recall any couple who presented for marital psychotherapy with a healthy sex life.

我很难回忆起有哪一对来寻求婚姻心理治疗的夫妇拥有一个健康的性生活。

Schiller attended French immersion in elementary school but admits she would be hard-pressed to hold down a conversation now.

席勒小学时学过法文，但她承认，现在连正常对话都有问题。

Put ten Chinese in a room, goes an old joke, and you would be hard pressed to get them to speak .

十个中国人一起只是一个笑话，你很难让他们开口。

I told him how hard pressed we were and asked him where, in the circumstances, I could find a gift for him.

我告诉他我们怎么努力，按问他，在这种情况下，我能找到一份礼物给他。

They would have been hard pressed not to, with near-zero interest rates and trillions of dollars of stimulus spending.

凭借近零利率和数万亿美元的刺激性支出，它们想不复苏都很难。

And, while he's not really the president, most people are hard pressed to tell them apart.

虽然他不是总统真身，但是大部分人见了都很难分辨谁真谁假。

Wild animals are often killed illegally for bush meat. The shacks by the flower farms sell impala meat to the hard-pressed workers.

人们为了能够享受美味会非法屠杀野生动物，在鲜花种植区附近的小铺子就有黑斑羚鲜肉卖给那些苦命的工人。

With orders from all over, local farm produce companies say rail capacity is hard-pressed to meet demand.

当地农产品公司表示，有了各地的订单，铁路运力要满足需求，面临很大压力。

Once you start looking around, you will be hard pressed to stop buying authentic accessories for your country home.

一旦开始为你的乡村家居寻找原版的装饰品，你就很难停下来。

In fact, you'll be hard-pressed to do much in the Ajax and JavaScript worlds without using the DOM to at least some degree.

事实上，如果在Ajax和JavaScript世界中不使用DOM就很难做多少事，至少在一定程度上如此。

With his wife in poor health and a new baby to care for, my brother is rather hard pressed to meet all his expenses.

我兄弟的妻子身体不好，又有个新生婴儿需要照料，种种必需的开支，使他手头十分拮据。

Due to the strength of this year's fiscal stimulus, though, such outlays will be hard-pressed to carry GDP forward in 2010.

鉴于今年财政刺激的力度，2010年继续保持GDP增长将造成财政压力的进一步加大。