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adj.被紧紧追赶的；任务紧急而繁忙的；处境艰难的
pressed───adj.（时间、资金等）紧缺的；压平的，压扁的；v.挤，推；按，压（使启动）；将……塞进；紧握（人的手或臂）；（敌人或对手）进逼；推搡着移动（press的过去式和过去分词）
pressed powder───粉饼；压制火药
pressed for───缺少
pressed on───强加于；向前推进
pressed hair───板寸；小平头
pressed flowers───压花
pressed slacks───紧身裤
expeller pressed───压榨机
clothes pressed───衣柜；衣橱
would be hard-pressed to find a better secretary.───找一位更好的秘书很难。
The region's hard-pressed consumers are spending less on luxuries.───该地区经济窘迫的消费者正在减少奢侈品的消费。
She was a hard-pressed personal assistant to a frenetic company chairman.───她给一位疯狂的公司总裁当私人助理，有很大的压力。
At the age of six, while I was eating a big apple, something hard pressed against my tongue. I spat it out. It was a tooth.───我六岁那年，有一次在吃一个大苹果时，有个东西压在了我的舌头上，吐出来，原来是颗牙齿。
Hard pressed by his father, John told the truth in spite of his wife's warnings.───约翰被他老子追急了，也就不顾不得老婆的叮嘱，说出了真情实事。
Orange offers a life to be lived to the full, too often not the safe and reliable pair of hands the hard pressed coach yearns for.───黄色给生命带来活力，但常常不是重压下教练们所希望得到的那双安全可靠的手。
Even the most cohesive and determined government would be hard-pressed to get out of this kind of fiscal mess.───就算是最具凝聚力、最坚定的政府也很难走出如此困境。
Although her husband has promised again and again to be faithful to her, Mary is still hard pressed to let her defenses down.───尽管她的丈夫再三承诺会对她忠诚，玛丽还是很难放下戒备心理。
The blue ink scratched its way across the paper, as if hard pressed to recall the individual shapes of letters.───蓝墨水在整张纸上艰难涂写，就好像被逼迫着记起每一个字母的形状。
Community projects are being axed by hard-pressed social services departments.