The region's hard-pressed consumers are spending less on luxuries.
该地区经济窘迫的消费者正在减少奢侈品的消费。
Many hard-pressed millennials are falling back on their parents, as Scott Nicholson has.
许多饱受压力的千禧年一代，像斯科特一样回到了父母身边。
But Syria's land is hard-pressed to meet demand, let alone provide for a strategic reserve.
然而叙利亚的土地难以满足其需要，更不必说提供战略储备了。
Some 95% of them have remained in the Middle East, including 2m in hard-pressed Jordan and Syria.
大约有95％的伊拉克人留在中东，其中有200万置身处境困难的约旦和叙利亚。
Today you would be hard-pressed to find a leading character who smokes in any top 10 box office movie.
今天，你已经很难在票房前十位的电影中找到会吸烟的主角了。
If that works, the resulting mixture may provide a new set of tools for the hard-pressed business manager.
如果这能够行得通，混合的结果可能为身处困境的商业经理们提供一系列新手段。
The look of Liverpool, too, has changed; the Blackstuff boys would be hard-pressed to recognise the place.
利物浦的样貌也发生了巨大变化，来自黑暗地带的男孩恐怕也要花费一番力气才能认出来。
That would be the functional equivalent of imposing a tax hike on already hard-pressed middle class workers.
这与向业已不堪重负的中产阶级工人征收高税收是功能对等的。
But that is a dangerous game; they may be hard-pressed to de-escalate future crises of a more serious nature.
不过那是一个危险的游戏，他们可能会捉襟见肘，升级为更严重的未来的危机。
Syndicating sales has several advantages for a hard-pressed debt manager.To start with, it clears up the clutter.
财团销售对于处于困境的债务管理人来说有些有利的因素。
Due to the strength of this year's fiscal stimulus, though, such outlays will be hard-pressed to carry GDP forward in 2010.
鉴于今年财政刺激的力度，2010年继续保持GDP增长将造成财政压力的进一步加大。
You'd be hard-pressed to get a NASA scientist to come out and say that the Kepler space telescope is designed to find aliens.
您可能会急于看到一位美国宇航局科学家站出来说，开普勒太空望远镜是用来寻找外星人的。
Most users would be hard-pressed to clear their HTTP authentication credentials for a site by any means other than logging out.
用户常常被要求以某种方式清除他们对某个站点的HTTP身份验证凭证。
Hard-pressed parents should not think they are the only ones doling out money to their children: taxpayers foot a hefty bill too.
顶着压力的父母们不应认为仅仅是是他们在为孩子出钱，纳税人也承担了高额的费用。
By lowering the funding costs of the two agencies, the rescue should also bring down mortgage rates for hard-pressed householders.
通过降低这两个机构的基金建设费用，业主所承受的房贷利率高压状态也应该有所缓解。
But Mr Obama, as General McChrystal noted, will be hard-pressed to sanction this unless there is a significant success for his plan.
但正如麦克·克里斯托将军指出的，奥巴马要批准这个计划将要承受极大的压力，除非他的计划取得了重大成果。
With less than two weeks to go in the third quarter, companies will be hard-pressed to fulfill earlier, more optimistic expectations.
在离第三季度结束还有两周之时，金融机构将会为过早的、过于乐观的预期而遭受巨大的压力。
But environmentalists will cheer that, at last, there may be some respite for the world's dwindling resources and hard-pressed ecosystems.
但环保人士会就此欢呼，最终，这个世界上有限的资源与被紧紧逼迫的生态系统终于有了喘息的机会。
You'd be hard-pressed to identify their positions on any relevant issue -- whether it is raising the debt ceiling or just the gasoline tax.
一切与汽车行业相关的大小事务中都难觅他们的踪影，不管是提高债务上限也好，还是提高燃油税也好。
The result has been a Gordian knot of preconditions for resuming talks that even the most ardent expert would be hard-pressed to figure out.
结果就成了恢复会谈前提条件的难题，即使是最热心的专家也难以解决。
Machine translation can certainly help in these cases. Its legendary bloopers are often no worse than the errors made by hard-pressed humans.
其实机器翻译能在这些场合发挥作用，要知道人工翻译已经出了不少广为人知的错误。
Still, all signs suggest that the troubled economy will continue to dwarf the fall in pump prices as hard-pressed consumers continue to cut back.
然而眼下所有迹象都表明，由于手头拮据的消费者纷纷捂紧口袋，汽油价格下跌在不景气的经济面前将继续扮演微不足道的作用。
Time, then, to see what a Darwinian analysis has to offer the hard-pressed policymaker, and whether it can make a practical difference to outcomes.
然而，时间将会见证达尔文的分析必定会给予给处于困境中的决策者们所需要的东西，而且会见证它是否能够对结果产生实际的影响。
The report found that the recession was forcing hard-pressed Americans — particularly the young — to double up in households with relatives and friends.
此报告发现，目前的衰退正迫使那些处于困境中的美国人——特别是年轻人——和其亲戚朋友合住。
Although meteorologists know what conditions favour their formation, they are hard-pressed to say exactly where a storm will occur until it is almost late.
尽管气象学家知道什么样的条件促进它们的形成，但往往到了基本上晚了的时候他们才艰难的说出雷暴到底什么时候发生。
Although meteorologists know what conditions favour their formation, they are hard-pressed to say exactly where a storm will occur until it is almost too late.
尽管气象学者们清楚地知道有利于雷暴形成的条件，但是要及时而又精确地预测雷暴发生的地点使他们感到压力重重。
The path to each decision is so short and irresistible, more like an electric pulse than like a weighing of options, that the reader is hard-pressed to explain what happened.
每一个决定的过程，都如此短暂而无法反对，与其说是各种选择间的衡量（读者很难去解释选择过程中到底发生了什么），不如说是电光火石般就完成了。
The path to each decision is so short and irresistible, more like an electric pulse than like a weighing of options, that the reader is hard-pressed to explain what happened.
每一个决定的过程，都如此短暂而无法反对，与其说是各种选择间的衡量（读者很难去解释选择过程中到底发生了什么），不如说是电光火石般就完成了。
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