| 释义 | hard-pressedˌhard-ˈpressed adjective    having a lot of problems and not enough money or time:The clinic provides help for hard-pressed families with young children.
 Alternatively, a hard-pressed sector may seek to persuade its government to invoke anti-dumping measures.Finally, I think the tests will simply overburden an already hard-pressed system, and prove unworkable.For hard-pressed business people, courses will run during the weekend.Funding the pay rise will be more difficult and we fear that hard-pressed services will suffer further.Pity, therefore, the hard-pressed driver of the Sauber-Mercedes.They were hard-pressed even to get a hotel room.
 The new exams will only add to the workload of already hard-pressed teachers. → be hard pressed to do something at hard2(5) |