hard up

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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(fā)現(xiàn)，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(zhǔn)備在這蓬勃發(fā)展的生育業(yè)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》中寫下窮困潦倒者的生活后，有什么改變了嗎？
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(cái)政拮據(jù)的西方國家政府，現(xiàn)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(quán)。

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(jì)下半葉,直至現(xiàn)今二十一世紀(jì),作家都在努力思考在現(xiàn)代主義影響,深遠(yuǎn)的這個時期里該怎樣進(jìn)行文體上的創(chuàng)新。
耶魯公開課 - 1945年后的美國小說課程節(jié)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-,隨便翻一份報紙或雜志,上面很少沒提到DNA技術(shù)的某個新應(yīng)用
耶魯公開課 - 生物醫(yī)學(xué)工程探索課程節(jié)選

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