钱很少；经济上有困难。
没有足够的钱；贫困或手头紧。
共 2 个含义,从最常见到最少见,按 CEFR 等级色彩标注。
钱不够；正经历经济困难。
"We were quite hard up when the children were young, so holidays were a rare luxury."
I was hard up, really hard up, and I didn't know what I was going to do.
— George Orwell, 'Down and Out in Paris and London', 1933
缺少或急需钱以外的某种东西（通常后接“for”）。
"The screenwriters must have been really hard up for material to recycle that old storyline."
作表语形容词使用（放在“be”后面）。主要用于英式英语。也可更广泛地表示缺少某物（如“hard up for ideas”），但最常见的还是钱方面的意思。通常表示暂时或具体情境下的拮据，而不是极端贫穷。
母语者最常搭配使用的单词。
最常用的五种时态形式。
来自 YouTube 真实视频中 "hard up" 的用法片段 — 点击可在 Looplines 上观看。
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