hard put

Mr Morton is undoubtedly cleverer than Mr Kirkby , but he will be hard put to match his popularity .

莫顿先生无疑比柯克比先生更聪明，但他将很难像柯克比先生那样受人欢迎。

We are hard put to find a replacement for our assistant .

我们很难找到一个人来代替我们的助手。

He was hard put to it by that problem .

他因那问题而陷于困境。

The students were hard put to it .

大家还没弄明白。

They 'll be hard put to get here before dawn .

他们要在天亮之前到达这里有困难。

Under the circumstances , he was hard put to explain himself .

在这种情况下，他很难为自己辩解。

At times Kennedy was hard put to keep the conversation going .

肯尼迪有时感到很难使话继续下去。

He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance .

他难以说明她为什麽不见了。

You 'd be hard put to it to make it more cheaply .

你会发现，很难比这价钱更便宜的了。

I shall be hard put to it to pay my bills this month .

我这个月难以付帐。

You 'd be hard put to it to justify your behaviour .

你难以证明你的行为是正当的。

Karl was hard put to find a good excuse for his absence .

卡尔无法为他的缺席找到一个像样的借口。

But he said Israel would be hard put to compensate the Palestinians .

不过，他表示，以色列对如何补偿巴勒斯坦一事感到为难。

She would be hard put to it to list other films which she liked more .

她很难举出其他一些能使她感到更为满意的电影。

I 'd be hard put to say exactly why I disliked him .

我很难启齿说明我到底为什么不喜欢他。

You would be hard put to it to find a pleasanter place than this .

你难以发现比这里更惬意的地方。

He was hard put to it to decide whether to stay in England or go abroad .

他难以决定究竟是留在英国还是到国外去。

He was hard put to find a good excuse for his lateness in coming to school .

他很难找到一个上学迟到的借口。

David has landed on his feet again . He was hard put to it by that problem .

戴维又侥幸脱离了困境。他因那问题而陷于困境。

When people asked me to why I would go to study abroad , I was hard put ( to it ) to answer the question .

当有人问我为什么要去国外读书，我不知道该怎样回答这个问题。

People should be hard put to it to find suitable words for the slaughter of the innocent Iraq civilians .

人们很难找到恰当的语言来形容对伊拉克无辜平民的屠杀。

Until very recently , scientists were hard put to detect altruistic behavior in chimps , at least in laboratory studies of captive animals .

以前，科学家们很难发现黑猩猩的利他行为，至少在对囚禁动物的实验研究中是不易发现的。

Does that still invite senior to return to turn to narrate teacher , show son to guide to return to for some days and hard put ?

那还请师兄回去转告师父，秀儿过些天就回去，不知如何？

Thanks for the loan , but you ought to know that I 'll be hard put to it to repay you before the end of the month .

谢谢您给予的贷款，不过你应该知道在月底前我很难把钱还给您。

But the scrappy fossil record of early primates - mostly teeth and isolated skeletal bones - left researchers hard put to test these hypotheses .

但是，早期灵长类的化石记录（牙齿和零散的骨骼居多）在太少了，让研究人员难以验证这些假说。

Even the Greek colonels , Franco , Mussolini or Salazar would have been hard put to reduce nominal wages on the scale required .

即便是希腊的上校们、佛朗哥（franco）、墨索里尼（mussolini）或萨拉查（salazar）也会很难按所需的力度削减名义薪资。

Of all subjects on this planet , I think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology when it came to securing the keys to an executive bathroom .

在这个星球上的所有科目中，我想他们很难再发现一门比希腊神学更没用的课程了。

Of all the subjects on this planet , I think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology when it came to securing the keys to an executive bathroom .

我想，他们也许认为，在全世界所有专业中，不会有比研究希腊神话更没用的专业了，那甚至无法换来一间独立宽敞的卫生间。

Now and again he had managed to borrow a few shillings from old pals , who would have lent more only that it was a drought year and they were hard put themselves .

有几次他从一些老朋友那里借到几个先令，他们愿意能多借几个钱给金，可是年景这样不好，谁都吃不消。

Drill always ended in the saloons of Jonesboro , and by nightfall so many fights had broken out that the officers were hard put to ward off casualties until the Yankees could inflict them .

结束操练时，常常要在琼斯博罗一些酒馆里演出最后的一幕。到了傍晚，争斗纷纷发生，使得军官们十分棘手，不得不在北方佬打来之前便忙着处理伤亡事件了。