单词	hard-pressed
释义	hard-pressedˌhard-ˈpressed adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES The clinic provides help for hard-pressed families with young children. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Alternatively, a hard-pressed sector may seek to persuade its government to invoke anti-dumping measures. Finally, I think the tests will simply overburden an already hard-pressed system, and prove unworkable. For hard-pressed business people, courses will run during the weekend. Funding the pay rise will be more difficult and we fear that hard-pressed services will suffer further. Pity, therefore, the hard-pressed driver of the Sauber-Mercedes. They were hard-pressed even to get a hotel room. having a lot of problems and not enough money or time:  The new exams will only add to the workload of already hard-pressed teachers. → be hard pressed to do something at hard2(5)
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