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If you are hard-pressed, life is squeezing you: too many problems, and not enough money, time, or help. Hard-pressed families may be short of cash; a hard-pressed hospital may have too many patients. News writers like this word.
If如果 you are hard-pressed你hard-pressed, life生活 is squeezing you正在擠壓你: too many problems太多問題, and而 not enough money, time, or help錢、時間或幫助都不夠. Hard-pressed familiesHard-pressed的家庭 may be short of cash可能手頭很緊; a hard-pressed hospital一間hard-pressed的醫院 may have too many patients可能病人太多. News writers新聞記者 like喜歡 this word這個字.
A very common shape is hard-pressed to plus a verb: I'd be hard-pressed to name a better one means you would find that difficult — you probably cannot.
A very common shape一個很常見的用法是 hard-pressed to plus a verbhard-pressed to加動詞: I'd be hard-pressed to name a better oneI'd be hard-pressed to name a better one means意思是 you would find that difficult你會覺得很難做到——you probably cannot你大概做不到.
Though actually, it does not always mean you are poor. A person with money can still be hard-pressed for time.
Though actually不過事實上, it它 does not always mean不一定表示 you are poor你很窮. A person with money一個有錢的人 can still be hard-pressed for time還是可能hard-pressed（時間很緊）.
And the to pattern is not “someone is pressing you to do it.” It is “you would have a hard time doing it.” Compared with broke or struggling, hard-pressed sounds a little more like a newspaper, not like a chat between friends. It is not about pressing with your hands.
And而 the to pattern這個to的用法不是 "someone is pressing you to do it"「有人在逼你去做這件事」. It它是 "you would have a hard time doing it"「你做這件事會很困難」. Compared with跟...比起來 broke or struggling broke（沒錢）或struggling（掙扎）, hard-pressed hard-pressed sounds a little more like a newspaper聽起來更像報紙用語, not而不是 like a chat between friends像朋友聊天. It它 is not不是 about pressing with your hands用手按壓的意思.
組成hard + pressed, from the idea of being pressed — squeezed by trouble or by a hard job.
同家族的字
- presspressed here is the squeeze/pressure sense of press, not a printing press
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
hard-pressedadj
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Barely able; having difficulty doing something.
- Although they are still available, I think we would be hard-pressed to find one on short notice.
- From the 'fifties onwards the development of the South Wales & Monmouthshire coalfield went on at terrific speed, and railway construction was hard pressed to keep pace with it.
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Experiencing financial difficulty or difficulty in surviving.
- The earthquake left the residents hard-pressed.
- Speaking to Parliament on March 23, Sunak announced a temporary cut in fuel duty of 5p per litre to hard-pressed motorists who have faced spiralling prices for diesel and petrol in recent weeks.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。