on hard times

基本解释

The only network carrier in America not to go through Chapter 11, American Airlines, has fallen on hard times, slipping from the number-one slot to number three.
美国唯一未获联邦破产法第11章通过的全球性航空公司美国航空公司在艰难时期遭受重创，从第一名滑到第三。
My friend Ruhollah, who once worked for me as a fixer, was in better shape: after falling on hard times, he’d landed a gig ferrying college girls to Kabul University and back.
我另一个朋友鲁霍拉，曾为当过我的修理工，他的情况要好很多：度过艰难时期以后，他得到一份为喀布尔大学女生摆渡的工作。
John Dingell, a Democrat from the Detroit suburbs, lamented the rows of empty houses he sees in the city since the American car industry fell on hard times.
约翰·丁格尔，来自底特律市郊的民主党人，对自美国汽车产业衰败以来他在城中所见的萧瑟空屋深表悲叹。

Then you push hard on the chest thirty times.
The Asia-Pacific travel industry is on the rise after two years of hard times caused by soaring fuel prices and the global economic slump.

Those structured products have fallen on hard times as the mortgage sector sinks deeper into crisis.
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But the state party has fallen on hard times since the days of Nixon and Reagan.
ECONOMIST: California’s Republicans