We have only 2 days left. That is (to say), we are hard pressed for time to do the job.

我们只剩两天了。换言之，我们做这件工作的时间非常紧迫。

Strangers might perhaps gain something from the college if they were hard pressed for social connections.

如果陌生人迫于社会关系的压力， 他们也许可以从大学中得到一些东西。

At the end of four months, the secret opinion of the judge was that the count and countess, being hard pressed for money, which was their normal condition, had sold the Queen's Necklace.

四个月后，法官的秘密意见是， 伯爵和伯爵夫人由于资金拮据， 这是他们的正常情况， 所以卖掉了王后的项链。