I should have been hard put to it to defend myself.

我应该很难为自己辩护。

The rabbits run shivering from one frozen garden patch to another and are hard put to it to find frost-bitten cabbage-stalks.

兔子们战战兢兢地从一块结冰的花园地块跑到另一块地块， 很难找到被冻伤的卷心菜茎。

Leonard said, " We hadn't never been hard put to it enough to try to put down one of them jessies, but we wouldn't leave you to try it alone" .

伦纳德说，“我们从来没有被困难到试图放下其中一个杰西的程度，但我们不会让你独自尝试”。

I have said that he was a gaunt, fierce old giant, and though I am no weakling I might have been hard put to it to hold my own against him.

我说过，他是个憔悴凶猛的老巨人， 我虽不是弱者， 恐怕也难以抗拒。