| 词汇 | hard-pressed |
| 释义 | hard-pressed adjective uk /ˌhɑːdˈprest/ us /ˌhɑːrdˈprest/ having a lot of difficulties doing something, especially because there is not enough time or money: 面临困难的，遭受强大压力的（尤指缺少时间或钱） The latest education reforms have put extra pressure on teachers who are already hard-pressed.最新的教育改革给工作强度已经很大的教师增加了额外的压力。 hard-pressed toBecause of shortages, the emergency services were hard-pressed to deal with the accident.由于缺乏人手和设备，紧急救援服务部门处理这起事故时显得捉襟见肘。 Most people would be hard-pressed (= would find it difficult) to name more than half a dozen members of the government.大多数人连6个内阁成员的名字都说不上来。 Experiencing difficulties be be (caught) between a rock and a hard placeidiom be climbing the wallsidiom be for the high jumpidiom be/come up against a brick wallidiom fall into something flounder frying pan fumble fun jungle leg on a razor edgeidiom out of the frying pan into the fireidiom pickle pressed prob rocky sticky strand hard-pressed | American Dictionaryhard-pressed adjective us/ˈhɑrdˈprest/(alsohard-put, us/ˈhɑrdˈpʊt/) experiencing a lot of difficulty: Most people would be hard-pressed to name all their elected officials. hard-pressed | Business Englishhard-pressed adjective uk /ˌhɑːdˈprest/us experiencing a lot of difficulty, especially because there is not enough time or money: Michigan's hard-pressed manufacturing sector shed another 2,000 jobs. hard-pressed to do sthThey received $71.50 a share when many analysts had predicted the company would be hard-pressed to find an offer higher than $70. Examples of hard-pressedhard-pressed I am hard-pressed to find shortcomings in this book. Still, a book of this size would be hard-pressed to exhaust the coverage. Beyond that, however, one is hard-pressed to find instances where the pattern could be considered a hook. I would be hard-pressed to identify any that could have been displaced by marquee players. Indeed, so entwined are public-interest arguments in the political and governmental structures of advanced democracies that we would be hard-pressed to do without them. No wonder, then, that its hard-pressed neighbours to the east encouraged vagrants to walk a little further before seeking a bed for the night. A note-based method works at the level of trees but is hard-pressed to create a forest, except as a collection of trees. Thus, the peninsula is hard-pressed to maintain current log production levels to feed these industries. Composers and performers may thus be hard-pressed to conform to the methodological requirements of scholarly discourse. The hard-pressed police were on the point of using armed force against the hostile mob, which would certainly have resulted in a bloodbath. Even with increasing life expectancy, one would be hard-pressed to argue that schooling years can increase forever without hitting a mortality constraint. By contrast, one would be hard-pressed to know where to look for a normative theory of language rights, whether liberal, communitarian, postcolonial, or otherwise. It could be argued that the 'daring experiment' was simply an instance of a hard-pressed council responding to a crisis. In reality, social workers are hard-pressed and have limited budgets. It may seem like merely a convenient and less time-consuming expedient for the busy, hard-pressed composer. See all examples of hard-pressed These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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