Hard pressed

基本解释

Firms will, equally, be hard pressed to raise prices enough to recover their higher input bills.
同样的，公司也将受到极大的压制，避免提高价格以补偿输入价格上涨。
But rising unemployment and spare capacity suggest that workers who want higher wages will be hard pressed to win them.
但是失业率上升和生产力闲置表明希望工资上涨的工人将受到极力压制获得工资上涨。
With only a single specimen he was hard pressed to prove it was a new species, so the fish remained, unnamed, on his desk for 25 years.
当时只有一个标本，很难证明这就是新物种，所以，那条鱼虽被保存，但一直未被命名，在他的办公桌上呆了25年之久。

House of Representatives as early as Friday, the unusual multi-year plan is aimed assuring a dependable flow of Washington support to the economically hard-pressed Pakistani government.
You'd be hard pressed to identify what the meter of that is so that's one reason, and of course what--where am I going with the next important point about what's happening in this music?
你会很难确定其中的节拍,这也是原因之一,当然这也是我将要讲解的下个关键点,关于在这类音乐中的情形
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Emergency responders have been hard-pressed to reach those in need.

Investors will be hard pressed to find a cheaper stock in the high-flying technology sector.
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