" He must be hard up for a sweetheart, " declared Marguerite.

“他一定是为了一个心上人而手头拮据，”玛格丽特宣称。

So they are very hard up for food and protein sources.

所以他们的食物和蛋白质来源非常困难。

Or you could say, she can't afford to buy a new car because she's hard up for money right now.

或者你可以说， 她买不起新车，因为她现在缺钱。

Instead, my friend was always " hard up for cash" -- he did not have much money. And the money he did earn was chicken feed -- very little.

相反，他总是手头紧，没有多少钱，他挣得的钱只是杯水车薪。

Jem, rather taken by the novelty of the idea, and very hard up for a change, was as ready to 'go in' for statistics as for anything else.

杰姆被这个想法的新颖性所吸引， 并且非常渴望改变， 他已经准备好“投入” 统计数据和其他任何事情。

But poor Cousin Cramchild, to do him justice, not being of that opinion, and having a moral mission, and being no scholar to speak of, and hard up for an authority—why, it was a very great temptation for him.

但是可怜的克拉姆柴尔德表哥，说句公道话，他不是那种意见，有道德使命感，又不是学者可言，又硬要当权——嘿，这对他来说是一个很大的诱惑。

There are degrees in being hard up. We are all hard up, more or less—most of us more. Some are hard up for a thousand pounds; some for a shilling. Just at this moment I am hard up myself for a fiver.

困难是有程度的。我们或多或少都手足无措——我们中的大多数人更甚。有些人为了一千英镑而苦不堪言；有些为了一先令。就在这一刻，我为一个五元钱而苦恼。