I should have been hard put to it to defend myself.

我应该很难为自己辩护。

In the weeks that followed her first party, Scarlett was hard put to keep up her pretense of supreme indifference to public opinion.

首次宴会之后，一连几个星期，思嘉感到要对大家的看法装作根本无所谓的样子是很困难的。

The rabbits run shivering from one frozen garden patch to another and are hard put to it to find frost-bitten cabbage-stalks.

兔子们战战兢兢地从一块结冰的花园地块跑到另一块地块， 很难找到被冻伤的卷心菜茎。

Some ships do sail with armed guards, but their small-calibre weapons would be hard put to stop a reinforced drone boat whipping across the waves, according to Mr Crino.

克里诺表示，有些船只确实配备了武装警卫，但他们的小口径武器很难阻止一艘加强型无人驾驶船在海浪中疾驰。

Drill always ended in the saloons of Jonesboro, and by nightfall so many fights had broken out that the officers were hard put to ward off casualties until the Yankees could inflict them.

结束操练时，常常要在琼斯博罗一些酒馆里演出最后的一幕。到了傍晚，争斗纷纷发生，使得军官们十分棘手，不得不在北方佬打来之前便忙着处理伤亡事件了。

Leonard said, " We hadn't never been hard put to it enough to try to put down one of them jessies, but we wouldn't leave you to try it alone" .

伦纳德说，“我们从来没有被困难到试图放下其中一个杰西的程度，但我们不会让你独自尝试”。

I have said that he was a gaunt, fierce old giant, and though I am no weakling I might have been hard put to it to hold my own against him.

我说过，他是个憔悴凶猛的老巨人， 我虽不是弱者， 恐怕也难以抗拒。