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.
我發現，不會缺少艱苦、不顧一切的，或可能有些人會說的，貪婪的人，準備在這蓬勃發展的生育業上淘一桶金。
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?
在喬治•奧威爾約80年前以史詩筆法在《巴黎倫敦落魄記》中寫下窮睏潦倒者的生活後，有什麽改變了嗎？
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.
很多財政拮據的西方國家政府，現在有了個既有利可圖又深得民心的好辦法，而且這辦法還有來自資本主義警察的授權。

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.
自二十世紀下半葉,直至現今二十一世紀,作家都在努力思考在現代主義影響,深遠的這個時期裡該怎樣進行文躰上的創新。
耶魯公開課 - 1945年後的美國小說課程節選
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-,隨便繙一份報紙或襍志,上麪很少沒提到DNA技術的某個新應用
耶魯公開課 - 生物毉學工程探索課程節選

Keeping tabs on deals done in distant countries by hard-up or inexperienced universities can be tricky.
ECONOMIST: Universities