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

• This year the airline will be hard-pressed to make a profit.
  今年该航空公司将很难赢利。
• 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。
• 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。
• You'd be hard-pressed to meet a nicer person.
  你很难碰到一个更好的人。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。