hard hit

基本解释

The retail industry has been hard-hit in recent months by a slow-down in consumer spending, partly because so many people have lost their jobs.
零售行业在最近几个月由于消费者消费数额减少而遭受沉重打击，这在一定程度上是因为有不少人丢掉了他们的工作。
But rather than digging in its heels, the ECB should insist that Europe’s politicians reduce those risks by coming up with funds to recapitalise hard-hit banks.
但与其固执己见，欧洲中央银行应当坚持，欧洲政客通过拿出资金对深受打击的银行进行资本重组减轻了那些风险。
Even among the social workers who work in hard-hit communities there is surprisingly little frustration at the meagreness of the handouts on offer or at the lengthy application process.
这种信念甚至也存在于那些在最困难的社区从事救助的社工身上，令人惊讶的，这些社区很少有人对施舍的稀缺和漫长的实施过程有挫折的感觉。

Betty Bonney sings about the way DiMaggio hit the ball very,very hard -- how he jolted it.
Workers are clearing rubble in the hard-hit coastal neighborhoods and power and telecommunications have been restored in most parts of American Samoa.
And the economy has been hit hard by the fall in the price of diamonds which make up one-third of its gross domestic product.

The inventory lists were long, especially in hard-hit areas such as Sacramento and Stockton.
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