"Hard-pressed" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 窘迫 | jiǒng pò | poverty-stricken / very poor / hard-pressed / in a predicament / embarrassed |   |
| 吃紧 | chī jǐn | in short supply / dire / tense / critical / hard-pressed / important | |
| 焦头烂额 | 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) | |
| 穷当益坚 | qióng dāng yì jiān | poor but ambitious (idiom) / hard-pressed but determined / the worse one's position, the harder one must fight back | |
