汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 焦頭爛額
焦頭爛額 (焦头烂额)
lit. badly burned about the head (from trying to put out a fire) (idiom) / fig. hard-pressed / under pressure (from a heavy workload, creditors etc)
Scorched his head and burned his forehead / The metaphor is very embarrassed and embarrassed / Sometimes it also describes being too busy to know what to do, with an exaggerated meaning
烧焦了头,灼伤了额。比喻非常狼狈窘迫。有时也形容忙得不知如何是好,带有夸张的意思。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

财政问题使这家公司焦头烂额

Financial problems are plaguing the company.

被这个问题搞的焦头烂额,却也想不出一个答案,只好仓皇出逃。

Badly battered is done which by this question, also cannot find out an answer actually, has to flee in panic.

美国,目前唯一真正能给以色列和巴勒斯坦当头棒喝的力量,却为其他地方的事务焦头烂额

The United States, still the only power that can really bang Israeli and Palestinian heads together, has been preoccupied elsewhere.

而法院和缓刑监督官则忙得焦头烂额,处理必要的文件,驳回这类严刑的法律挑战。

Courts and probation officers were too swamped to handle the necessary paperwork and rebut the legal challenges to such harsh penalties.

这位焦头烂额的总统还否认了最近说他被自己的士兵扣留当人质的说法。

The embattled president also denied recent claims that he was being held hostage by his own soldiers.

那些犬儒主义者指出这些猜测只是使布伦伯格的名字暴光的好方法,并避免那个在白宫内焦头烂额,无所适从的人。

Cynics point out that all this speculation is a great way of keeping Mr Bloomberg's name in lights, and avoiding the lame-duckery that has so crippled the man now in the White House.

在今年的新片《你怎知道》中,瑞希·威瑟斯彭身陷三角恋爱焦头烂额,但是在荧屏之外,这位奥斯卡奖得主目光却仅仅锁定了一个男人。

Reese Witherspoon finds herself in the middle of a love triangle in her latest film, "How Do You Know," but beyond the big screen, the Oscar-winning actress has her eye set on just one man.