"Hard-pressed" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 jiǒng pò poverty-stricken / very poor / hard-pressed / in a predicament / embarrassed
 chī jǐn in short supply / dire / tense / critical / hard-pressed / important
 jiāo tóu làn é lit. badly burned about the head (from trying to put out a fire) (idiom) / fig. hard-pressed / under pressure (from a heavy workload, creditors etc)
 qióng dāng yì jiān poor but ambitious (idiom) / hard-pressed but determined / the worse one's position, the harder one must fight back
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