hard-up

基本解释

I discovered that there is no shortage of hard-up, desperate or some might say greedy people, ready to cash in on the booming fertility business.
我发现，不会缺少艰苦、不顾一切的，或可能有些人会说的，贪婪的人，准备在这蓬勃发展的生育业上淘一桶金。
Some 80 years after George Orwell chronicled the lives of the hard-up and destitute in his book Down and Out in Paris and London, what has changed?
在乔治•奥威尔约80年前以史诗笔法在《巴黎伦敦落魄记》中写下穷困潦倒者的生活后，有什么改变了吗？
Many hard-up Western governments now have a recipe for raising levies that are lucrative, wildly popular and come with the imprimatur of capitalism's policeman.
很多财政拮据的西方国家政府，现在有了个既有利可图又深得民心的好办法，而且这办法还有来自资本主义警察的授权。

That is,this kind of pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps, that with enough determination and hard work that you can transcend limitations of money or class or gender.
In the second half of the twentieth century and up now into the twenty-first century, writers were thinking very hard about what to do stylistically with all the innovations that come in that powerful period known as modernism.
自二十世纪下半叶,直至现今二十一世纪,作家都在努力思考在现代主义影响,深远的这个时期里该怎样进行文体上的创新。
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You know this, you can - it's hard to pick up a newspaper or a news magazine without hearing some new application of DNA technology.
你知道的,你-,随便翻一份报纸或杂志,上面很少没提到DNA技术的某个新应用
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Keeping tabs on deals done in distant countries by hard-up or inexperienced universities can be tricky.
ECONOMIST: Universities