英语词汇“to be hard put to it”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. spec. To force (a person) to do his or her utmost; to drive to extremities; to embarrass, to place at a loss or in difficulty. Now chiefly with modifying word in to be hard (also sorely, etc.) put to it (to do something), to be hard put (to do something).In quot. a1616 figurative.

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the world > action or operation > difficulty > present difficulties [verb (intransitive)] > be in difficulties or straits

to be hard bested?c1225

to be hard set1387

to be hard (straitly, stiffly, etc.) steada1400

to have mistera1400

charge1487

to be hard (also sorely, etc.) put to ita1616

straiten1647

to be ill set1673

press1813

to be up a gum tree1829

push1863

the world > action or operation > difficulty > of difficulty: beset (a person) [verb (transitive)] > put (a person) in difficulty > reduce to straits

enstraita1500

plungea1513

to put or drive to a (or the) shift or shifts1553

to put (one) to (upon) his trump or trumps1559

to drive (a person) near1594

to put, drive, reduce, etc. to the last shiftsa1604

to be hard (also sorely, etc.) put to ita1616

press1672

pinch1693

push1761

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 360 Lord Angelo Dukes it well in his absence: he puts transgression too't.

1640 Bp. J. Hall Christian Moderation i. 130 Those Anticks of stone..carved out under the end of great beams in vast buildings, which seeme..as if they were hard put to it, with the weight.

1642 D. Rogers Naaman 128 Fourthly and lastly, the Tenaciousnesse of selfe: I meane when she is put hard to it.

a1643 J. Shute Sarah & Hagar (1649) 179 I know this is difficult, and puts a man to it.

1672 D. Brevint Roman Mass i. 6 The best Historian shall be very hard put to seek, before he find among them all, as long a list of abominable Livers.

1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. 64 (margin) The Hill puts the Pilgrims to it .

1701 J. Edwards Free Disc. conc. Truth & Error Pref. p. xxxiii Doth he not think that it will be objected that he is put hard to it, when the Authority of the Bible can't be maintained by him without the defaming of all ofther Writings?

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 80 I..would be sorely put to it for Lodging.

1754 G. G. Beekman Let. 5 Aug. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 219 He was..much put to it to settel his affairs.

1852 E. Ruskin Let. 27 June in Effie in Venice (1965) ii. 328 You may imagine how I am put to it sometimes when three or four people question me at once in Venetian.

1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iv. xiii. 274 We were hard put to it..to get it done in so short a time.

1920 School Educ. Rec. (Univ. N. Dakota) Apr. 50/1 The common man and woman, however hard-put to make a living.

1937 Amer. Home Apr. 30/2 We are considerably put to it to know just what furniture to select to show you.

1985 S. Hood Storm from Paradise (1988) 95 Why he should have chosen the field path rather than the usual road he might have been rather hard put to it to explain.

1987 P. B. Waite Lord of Point Grey vi. 70 Larry was hard put to prevent her from running as C.C.F. candidate.

2006 Herald Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 15 July 11 A time traveller from the 1950s would be hard put to it to understand this phenomenon.

单词	to be hard put to it
释义	> as lemmas to be hard (also sorely, etc.) put to it b. spec. To force (a person) to do his or her utmost; to drive to extremities; to embarrass, to place at a loss or in difficulty. Now chiefly with modifying word in to be hard (also sorely, etc.) put to it (to do something), to be hard put (to do something).In quot. a1616 figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > present difficulties [verb (intransitive)] > be in difficulties or straits to be hard bested?c1225 to be hard set1387 to be hard (straitly, stiffly, etc.) steada1400 to have mistera1400 charge1487 to be hard (also sorely, etc.) put to ita1616 straiten1647 to be ill set1673 press1813 to be up a gum tree1829 push1863 the world > action or operation > difficulty > of difficulty: beset (a person) [verb (transitive)] > put (a person) in difficulty > reduce to straits enstraita1500 plungea1513 to put or drive to a (or the) shift or shifts1553 to put (one) to (upon) his trump or trumps1559 to drive (a person) near1594 to put, drive, reduce, etc. to the last shiftsa1604 to be hard (also sorely, etc.) put to ita1616 press1672 pinch1693 push1761 a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 360 Lord Angelo Dukes it well in his absence: he puts transgression too't. View more context for this quotation 1640 Bp. J. Hall Christian Moderation i. 130 Those Anticks of stone..carved out under the end of great beams in vast buildings, which seeme..as if they were hard put to it, with the weight. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 128 Fourthly and lastly, the Tenaciousnesse of selfe: I meane when she is put hard to it. a1643 J. Shute Sarah & Hagar (1649) 179 I know this is difficult, and puts a man to it. 1672 D. Brevint Roman Mass i. 6 The best Historian shall be very hard put to seek, before he find among them all, as long a list of abominable Livers. 1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. 64 (margin) The Hill puts the Pilgrims to it . View more context for this quotation 1701 J. Edwards Free Disc. conc. Truth & Error Pref. p. xxxiii Doth he not think that it will be objected that he is put hard to it, when the Authority of the Bible can't be maintained by him without the defaming of all ofther Writings? 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 80 I..would be sorely put to it for Lodging. 1754 G. G. Beekman Let. 5 Aug. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 219 He was..much put to it to settel his affairs. 1852 E. Ruskin Let. 27 June in Effie in Venice (1965) ii. 328 You may imagine how I am put to it sometimes when three or four people question me at once in Venetian. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iv. xiii. 274 We were hard put to it..to get it done in so short a time. 1920 School Educ. Rec. (Univ. N. Dakota) Apr. 50/1 The common man and woman, however hard-put to make a living. 1937 Amer. Home Apr. 30/2 We are considerably put to it to know just what furniture to select to show you. 1985 S. Hood Storm from Paradise (1988) 95 Why he should have chosen the field path rather than the usual road he might have been rather hard put to it to explain. 1987 P. B. Waite Lord of Point Grey vi. 70 Larry was hard put to prevent her from running as C.C.F. candidate. 2006 Herald Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 15 July 11 A time traveller from the 1950s would be hard put to it to understand this phenomenon. extracted from putv. < as lemmas
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