hard-pressed

ˌhard-ˈpressed adjectiveadj

PROBLEMhaving a lot of problems and not enough money or time 处于困境的；遭受巨大压力的

The new exams will only add to the workload of already hard-pressed teachers.

新推出的考试只会给原本就承受巨大压力的老师们增加工作负担。

→ be hard pressed to do something at hard2(5)

Examples from the Corpus

hard-pressed• For hard-pressed business people, courses will run during the weekend.• Pity, therefore, the hard-pressed driver of the Sauber-Mercedes.• They were hard-pressed even to get a hotel room.• 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.• Funding the pay rise will be more difficult and we fear that hard-pressed services will suffer further.• Finally, I think the tests will simply overburden an already hard-pressed system, and prove unworkable.

ˌhard-ˈpressed adjectiveadj

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