hard-up

hard-up

美 　英

• adj.〈口〉缺少；急需
• 網絡手頭緊；經濟拮據；經濟困難

英漢雙解

英漢解釋

例句

Being hard up, she and Yuan Zhen were immensely pleased to see me, guessing I must have brought some money with me to share with them.

她和元真正窮得沒法過日子，見我去時很高興，猜想我一定拿到了錢，連忙向我瓜分。

He was always hard up, but being a man of enterprise knew all the best people, as well as all the worst, so that he dined out every night.

他手頭總是很緊，但是由于他敢作敢為，他認識一切最好的和最壞的人物，所以他天天在外面吃晚飯。

Forget it! Don't strain at a gnat. As you know, he is hard up these days.

算了吧！不要斤斤計較。如你所知，他最近手頭緊。

He's very understanding: if I'm hard up by the middle of the week he'll always let me have a few groceries on tick till Friday.

他很會體諒人：要是我們到星期二左右手頭緊了起來，他就賒給我一些食品雜貨，直到星期五再付款。

He was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Instead, my friend was always hard up for cash.

他不是生來富貴人家英寸相反，我的朋友總是缺錢現金。

I am in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, and heading for a remote bit of Nuerland, hard up against the bandit border with Ethiopia.

我從蘇丹南部的首府朱巴向紐爾蘭進發，一個與埃塞俄比亞劍拔弩張的邊塞小鎮。

Instead, my friend was always hard up for cash. He did not have much moneyandAnd the money he did earn was chicken feed- very little.

他的家境并不富有，也不是含著金湯匙出生的，反而經常缺錢，自己賺的也很少，少的可憐。

The famous mathematician, Mr. Hua has made a "hard-up and hence is a good training and a hard one before. "

著名的數學家華羅庚先生有一句話“勤奮補拙是良訓，一分辛苦一分才。”

The two cross-talk actors must be hard up for ideas, since there were only old punch-lines in their show.

那兩個相聲演員恐怕已經黔驢技窮了，表演中只有些老包袱。

What he did let slip was that were quite hard up.

他無意中說出的一個情況是他們經濟上還相當緊張。

He is always hard up because he doesn't lay out his money wisely.

他總是沒錢，因為他用錢不會精打細算。

"This is diplomatic property, " said one of the guards in good English, as he thrust me hard up against a jeep.

其中一個警衛一邊把我推搡到一輛吉普車前，一邊用純正的英語說道：“這里是外交領地。”

Eg. He was very hard up for money when he was out of job.

他失業的時候很窮。

As the white -collar are yelling for being hard up, we blue-collar had better go begging. It's soon when I am going to be a beggar.

白領們都在叫著薪水不夠，我們藍領真該去要飯了。現在看快了，離要飯僅一步之遙。

He was just as hard up as any of us.

他和我們中的任何人都一樣手頭拮據。

Culms hard, up to 2 m long, farinose below nodes, nodes densely bearded in tuft at sheath margin or all round.

2米長的稈硬，可達，在下面節，節濃密具髯毛成叢到處在鞘邊緣或時候。

Eg. The company is hard up for new ideas.

這家公司缺乏新的構想。

After losing the state funding given to opposition parties, the Lib Dems are hard-up, and leaving their stately Westminster HQ.

在失去了支付給反對黨的國家資金后，拮據的自由民主黨離開了宏偉的威斯敏斯特總部。

I should (would) never have done it if I hadn't been so hard up.

如果手頭不是那樣拮據，我是不會那樣做的。

Although adamant that he is not cashing in on Diana's death, Rees -Jones is submitting to a media hoopla because he is hard up.

雖然里斯。瓊斯堅稱他并非利用戴安娜之死來掙錢，實際他確實是由于生活日益拮掘而屈服于媒體的糾纏。

We are a bit hard up at the moment.

我們最近手頭有點緊。

But even in one of the world's richest countries the hard-up represent a huge and growing market.

但即使在世界上最富裕的國家，窮人也代表著巨大而很有前景的市場。

With the Federal Reserve's target interest rate hard up against the 0% lower limit, some additional fiscal expansion is justified.

隨著聯儲對目標利率從極限0%的堅挺提升，一些額外的財政擴張措施也隨之而來。

Her husband is continually complaining of being hard up (for money).

她的丈夫時常訴苦手頭很緊。

Stick bug: Boy, these folks are sure hard up for entertainment.

棍蟲：哥們，這些家伙顯然缺乏娛樂活動。

But also inspired her determination to work hard up, she secretly vowed to stand out to make people look down below her glasses!

但也激發她向上努力奮斗的決心，她暗暗發誓要出人頭地要讓瞧不起她的人跌破眼鏡！

The work is hard -- up to 10 takes of one shot from different angles.

工作很辛苦--一個鏡頭會從不同的角度拍攝10次以上。

So do I. I don't think anyone enjoys being hard up for time, money, or work.

對，缺錢，缺時間，沒工作都不好受。

You'll want to try to push yourself hard up the hill, but don't let your form totally fall apart.

您想用力沖上坡頂，但是不能使您的跑姿徹底變形。

As he was hard up he had to take this job.

由于手頭兒緊，他不得不接受這份工作。

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay ARE compliments. They're the only things we CAN pay.

這年頭大家都鬧窮，唯一可獻的好東西只有殷勤了。只有殷勤可以獻得起樂。

Hard-up companies will be tempted to opt for cheaper, DIY solutions, to the irritation of established pollsters.

資金緊張的公司可能禁不住選擇更便宜的、自己動手做（DIY）的方式，這惹惱了傳統的調查公司。

idiom To be 'hard up' is an English idiom.

成語，慣用語風勢已減。

I wouldn't have done it like that if I hadn't been so hard up.

倘若我以前手頭不是那么拮據的話，我就不會那么做了。

So, today, most hard up countries in Europe are finding it harder to borrow money.

因此，在今天，歐洲很多資金短缺的國家發現要借錢的話越來越難了。

Eg. The country is hard up for technicians and doctors.

鄉村急需技術人員和醫生。

Susan was hard up for money at the time and Rita paid her few hundred bucks to screw me.

蘇珊當時手頭緊，麗塔給了她幾百美金誘使我和她發生通奸行為。

We were very hard up for money when I lost my job.

在我失業時，我們手頭很緊。

Hard up families may receive financial support from the welfare fund.

經濟困難的家庭可獲得福利基金的經濟支持。

Feet hard up or leave you to jump.

兩腳用力離開原地向上或向前跳。