You would be hard-pressed to find a better secretary.
找一位更好的秘书很难。
This year the airline will be hard-pressed to make a profit.
今年航空公司将很难盈利。
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。
But many Americans who know her name are hard-pressed to say what exactly she does.
但要问起她干的具体是什么活，可就能问倒一片美国人了，即使他们知道有这么一个人。
Many hard-pressed millennials are falling back on their parents, as Scott Nicholson has.
许多饱受压力的千禧年一代，像斯科特一样回到了父母身边。
But Syria's land is hard-pressed to meet demand, let alone provide for a strategic reserve.
然而叙利亚的土地难以满足其需要，更不必说提供战略储备了。
Today you would be hard-pressed to find a leading character who smokes in any top 10 box office movie.
今天，你已经很难在票房前十位的电影中找到会吸烟的主角了。
If that works, the resulting mixture may provide a new set of tools for the hard-pressed business manager.
如果这能够行得通，混合的结果可能为身处困境的商业经理们提供一系列新手段。
The look of Liverpool, too, has changed; the Blackstuff boys would be hard-pressed to recognise the place.
利物浦的样貌也发生了巨大变化，来自黑暗地带的男孩恐怕也要花费一番力气才能认出来。
That would be the functional equivalent of imposing a tax hike on already hard-pressed middle class workers.
这与向业已不堪重负的中产阶级工人征收高税收是功能对等的。
But Mr Obama, as General McChrystal noted, will be hard-pressed to sanction this unless there is a significant success for his plan.
但正如麦克·克里斯托将军指出的，奥巴马要批准这个计划将要承受极大的压力，除非他的计划取得了重大成果。
But environmentalists will cheer that, at last, there may be some respite for the world's dwindling resources and hard-pressed ecosystems.
但环保人士会就此欢呼，最终，这个世界上有限的资源与被紧紧逼迫的生态系统终于有了喘息的机会。
The result has been a Gordian knot of preconditions for resuming talks that even the most ardent expert would be hard-pressed to figure out.
结果就成了恢复会谈前提条件的难题，即使是最热心的专家也难以解决。
Still, all signs suggest that the troubled economy will continue to dwarf the fall in pump prices as hard-pressed consumers continue to cut back.
然而眼下所有迹象都表明，由于手头拮据的消费者纷纷捂紧口袋，汽油价格下跌在不景气的经济面前将继续扮演微不足道的作用。
Reporter: If you'd walked into an average American supermarket about 20 years ago, you would have been hard-pressed to find an organic label anywhere.
记者：如果二十年前你走进一家普通的美国超市，你很难看到有机食品的标签。
The report found that the recession was forcing hard-pressed Americans — particularly the young — to double up in households with relatives and friends.
此报告发现，目前的衰退正迫使那些处于困境中的美国人——特别是年轻人——和其亲戚朋友合住。
Although meteorologists know what conditions favour their formation, they are hard-pressed to say exactly where a storm will occur until it is almost too late.
尽管气象学者们清楚地知道有利于雷暴形成的条件，但是要及时而又精确地预测雷暴发生的地点使他们感到压力重重。
You would be hard-pressed to find anyone who disagreed, but it turns out past studies have seriously under-estimated the number of trees on farms around the world.
然而，事实上，过去的研究低估了全球各地农场里数量众多的树木。
The only pattern I noticed was what you’d expect, that the jobs happened on our busiest days, when any of us were hard-pressed just to keep our fingers out of spinning fans.
我所观察到的唯一规律，就是这些都发生在我们工作最繁忙的日子里。 每次遇到这种时候，我们三个就都捉襟见肘了，恨不得多生两只手。
For one thing, drivers who do not have a garage, or at least a house with an exterior electric outlet, would be hard-pressed to find a place to plug in for several hours a day.
一方面来说，对一个司机来说，如果没有车库，或者说没有一个有外接充电设施的房子，每天找个地方充几小时的电非常困难。
John McCain's tax policies are designed to create jobs, increase wages and allow all Americans — especially those in the hard-pressed middle class — to keep more of what they earn.
约翰·麦凯恩的税收政策可以创造工作机会、增加工资并允许所有的美国人——特别是饱受压力的中产阶级——保有更多的收入。
Hard-pressed parents should not think they are the only ones doling out money to their children: taxpayers foot a hefty bill too.
顶着压力的父母们不应认为仅仅是是他们在为孩子出钱，纳税人也承担了高额的费用。
Hard-pressed parents should not think they are the only ones doling out money to their children: taxpayers foot a hefty bill3 too.
焦头烂额的父母应该意识到，不是只有他们自己在为孩子们埋单：纳税人也贡献了不少。
Third Corps was hard pressed and Meade sent V Corps and part of 11 Corps to reinforce Sickles in the Peach Orchard.
第三军团压力巨大，米德随即派遣第五军团和第十一军团的一部分前往桃林增援。
More importantly, Tapestry USES HTML files as the template for its pages; so you'd be hard pressed to develop your Tapestry components without having your basic HTML pages in place.
更重要的是，Tapestry用HTML文件作为它的页面模板，所以如果没有基本的html页面，开发Tapestry组件的压力会很大。
More importantly, Tapestry USES HTML files as the template for its pages; so you'd be hard pressed to develop your Tapestry components without having your basic HTML pages in place.
更重要的是，Tapestry用HTML文件作为它的页面模板，所以如果没有基本的html页面，开发Tapestry组件的压力会很大。
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