汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 步履维艰
步履维艰 (步履維艱)
to have difficulty walking (idiom) / to walk with difficulty
Refers to difficulty in walking and inconvenient movement
指行走困难行动不方便。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

当潜水员们走向海岸时,铅坠和氧气缸让他们步履维艰

Lead weights and air cylinders encumbered the divers as they walked to the shore.

给自己一个强有力的理由或目标,若非如此,你在生活中会感到步履维艰

Give yourself a strong reason or target, if not, you will feel in your life.

此通告只不过是一令人悲哀而可怕的事实的又一征兆——美国邮政管理局步履维艰

The announcement is just the latest sign of a sad and increasingly dire fact: the Postal Service is in shambles.

其员工也将步履维艰,当他们的住房贷款座右铭是“果敢无畏”时,他们的日子更好过些。

It is hard, too, on WaMulians, as employees liked to be known in happier times when their home-loans motto was "be Bold".

这的确值得关注,因为自2002年起,杂志出版业就开始步履维艰,许多分析家都断定纸媒难逃灭顶之灾。

This is noteworthy because the magazine business has been in a funk since 2002, and many analysts have concluded that the death of print is inevitable.