be hard up for

So, your XAMPP installation has been up and running for a couple of weeks and you've amassed quite a sizeable set of data that you don't want to be at risk from a hard drive crash.

因此，假设您的XAMPP安装已经启动并运行了几周了，并向其中输入了很多数据，那么您就应该防范出现硬盘崩溃的风险。

Elizabeth Demers, a professor at INSEAD, a business school near Paris, points out that what companies lose in terms of hard cash in the early days can often be made up for in terms of the publicity they get when the news media applaud the explosive rise in their share prices.

欧洲管理事务学院（INSEAD，巴黎附近的一家工商学院）的伊丽莎白•德默斯教授指出，企业创业早期在现金上的损失，通常能在日后新闻媒体对其股价爆发式增长的宣传和推崇中得到补偿。

I can not imagine a human be so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me.

我不能想象有人手头急需做的事情就是要跟我吵架。

It is foolish to live up to the last penny of your income and put nothing by for possible emergencies; you'll always be hard up at that rate.

你把自己收入的钱花个精光，不留下钱以备急需，照这样过日子是很不妥的；长此以往你就会感到拮据。

It must be hard for her, bringing up four children on her own.

她一个人抚养四个孩子一定很艰难。

LL: To be "hard up" for something means that you don't have enough of it.

你的朋友怎么啦？你说他hard up for cash。

But I think it is going to be hard for Putin to give up all the controls that he had.

但是我认为，对于普京而言，放弃他已有的所有控制权，这很难做到。