on hard times

基本解釋

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.
美國唯一未獲聯(lián)邦破産法第11章通過的全球性航空公司美國航空公司在艱難時(shí)期遭受重創(chuàng)，從第一名滑到第三。
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.
我另一個(gè)朋友魯霍拉，曾爲(wèi)儅過我的脩理工，他的情況要好很多：度過艱難時(shí)期以後，他得到一份爲(wèi) 喀佈爾大學(xué)女生擺渡的工作。
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.
約翰·丁格爾，來自底特律市郊的民主黨人，對(duì)自美國汽車産業(yè)衰敗以來他在城中所見的蕭瑟空屋深表悲歎。

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