Hard pressed

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Firms will, equally, be hard pressed to raise prices enough to recover their higher input bills.
同樣的，公司也將受到極大的壓制，避免提高價格以補償輸入價格上漲。
But rising unemployment and spare capacity suggest that workers who want higher wages will be hard pressed to win them.
但是失業(yè)率上升和生產(chǎn)力閑置表明希望工資上漲的工人將受到極力壓制獲得工資上漲。
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.
當(dāng)時只有一個標(biāo)本，很難證明這就是新物種，所以，那條魚雖被保存，但一直未被命名，在他的辦公桌上呆了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?
你會很難確定其中的節(jié)拍,這也是原因之一,當(dāng)然這也是我將要講解的下個關(guān)鍵點,關(guān)于在這類音樂中的情形
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Emergency responders have been hard-pressed to reach those in need.

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