难以应付：表示在某种情况下很难应对或处理。
He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.
他很难对她的消失作出解释。
But we would be hard put to call it unnatural.
但我们很难称之为不自然。
The movements he made were so comical that I was hard put to it not to laugh.
他作出的动作是如此的滑稽以至于我忍不住大笑。
Then,a hard cast may be put around the area of the break to hold the bone in place while it heals.
VOA : special.2009.02.04
Now if all we have to go on is just this semiotic system, it's going to be kind of hard to put up resistance to by the same token we'll say "yellow" means "pause," "green" means "go."
而从语义学角度分析，我们必须不能这么想,这样绿色自然就表示继续，黄色表示暂停“
文学理论导论课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
if you really have some trouble with DVD then Ok, put it in and if I'm not back start it anyhow and I'll try very hard to be here in the meantime,could you make out the card
如果有什么问题的话,如果我没及时赶过来的话，下次把它先放一下,无论如何把它放了，我下次也尽量赶过来,啊，你看一下这个卡
电影哲学课程节选 : 麻省理工公开课
Clay becomes very hard when it is put in a fire or a special oven called a kiln.
VOA : special.2009.01.12
The Whigs put up log cabins everywhere and offered free hard cider to everyone.
VOA : special.2009.01.22
You would be hard put to find a more learnedly concise survey of humanity's journey.
Even the dapper Mr Lucinschi is hard put to say what it means to be Moldovan.
Kenya's intelligence service is also hard put to monitor the country's 2.5m ethnic Somalis.
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