英语释义

• distressed or embarrassed (especially financially)

片语

straitened means有限的财产

needy(Needy)人名；(英)尼迪

underprivileged贫困的；被剥夺基本权力的；社会地位低下的

straitened circumstances困顿

be straitened in room翻译

straitened students困难学生

straitened d贫困的

live in straitened circumstances日子

straitened spleen脾约

straitened student贫困大学生

Layla Straitened蕾拉艰难

英汉例句

• In the straitened Gold household every paycheck counted, so after high school Harry found a job while I went to college.

  在戈尔德拮据的家里，每份工资收入都很重要，所以中学毕业后，我去念大学而哈里找了份工作。

• It argues that its obsessive focus on low prices is in keeping with the straitened times.

  该公司声称其锲而不舍的低价策略十分适合萧条时期的市场情况。

• Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.

  你们狭窄，原不在乎我们，是在乎自己的心肠狭窄。

• He is often called to consult on how to 「green up」 projects, and his advice, in these straitened times, is often admirably bold.

  他经常被咨询如何让项目「绿起来」，他的建议在这样一个困难时期可谓相当大胆。

• Even in the straitened years of post-war reconstruction, he was soon selling millions of books a year.

  即使在战后重建的艰难岁月里，它的销量很快就达到了每年数百万本。

• For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.

  圣屋有三层，却无柱子，不像外院的屋子有柱子。所以上层比中下两层更窄。

• So he returned his straitened means to his pocket, and gave up the idea of trying to buy the boys.

  于是他又把这几件可怜的宝贝玩意装进口袋，打消了用这些来收买那些男孩子的念头。

• It is almost an 「item of faith」 among development economists that the poor act rationally, however straitened their circumstances.

  无论多么穷困潦倒，穷人做事都很理性，这几乎成了发展经济学家所持的信念。

• In today「s straitened times, such policies are harder to finance.

  可是在目前财政拮据的时代，上述各项政策更难筹措资金。

• Poor households must prove their straitened means to the government, which then picks up between 25% and 85% of the monthly tab for up to 15 cubic metres (3,960 American gallons) of water.

  贫穷家庭向政府证明他们手头拮据，政府就会为他们支付每月15立方内用水款的25%-85%。

• The government’s abortive attempt to remove the fuel subsidy (which cost $380m last year) was a sign of its more straitened finances.

  玻国政府企图取消燃料补贴金（去年花费3.8亿美元）失败是该国财政更拮据的徵兆。

• You are not straitened in us, but in your own bowels you are straitened.

  你们在我们心内并不窄狭，而是你们的心肠窄狭。

• Now, during another financial crisis, the classical guitar」s intimate strains seem again to be offering a spiritual succour in straitened times.

  现在是另外一次金融危机，古典吉他那为人熟知的音乐片段似乎又开始为艰难年代提供精神慰藉。

• The welfare state, built on postwar prosperity, has become too expensive for these straitened times.

  对于现在这个拮据的时代来说，建立在战后繁荣基础上的福利国家已经太过昂贵了。

• While the anination industry surely is booming, cartoonists across the globe are complaining about the stress they've felt in making a living, and their increasingly straitened circumstances.

  动漫产业迅猛发展是不争的事实，但全球的漫画家都在抱怨生存的压力和生活的窘迫，而且似乎有越来越窘迫的趋势。

• What is remarkable is not the price, nor even that the funds to buy it in these straitened times will have been raised entirely from philanthropic sources.

  值得注意的并不是它的价格，甚至也不是在这个经济窘迫的时期从那些仁慈之手中募集来用以购买它的资金。

• But the reality is that in straitened economic times, beggars cannot be choosers.

  但是，现实是：在经济困境时代，穷光蛋是没有选择的。

• In these straitened times, might boiled grass become a cheap and tasty item for Aberystwyth students?

  在这种困苦时期，煮熟的草能成为阿伯·雷斯·威斯学生即便宜又好吃的东西吗？

• Others, especially in straitened times, are reluctant to spend money on a distant and uncertain threat-especially when their peers are doing nothing.

  而另一些人，尤其是当前拮据的那些，不愿把钱花在遥远的不确定的威胁上——特别是他们的同伙们毫无作为时更是如此。

• More importantly, we must pay great attention to less developed areas and the industries and people in straitened circumstances and show concern for them.

  更要高度重视和关心欠发达地区以及比较困难的行业和群众。

• But—especially in such straitened times—prime ministers are mostly judged on how they cope with their domestic challenges.

  但是，尤其是在如此贫困的时期，人们对首相的评判更多的取决于他们如何应对国内危机。

• How can Dallas afford all this, and in straitened times to boot?

  在这艰难时刻，达拉斯如何才能承担所有费用以进行大力建设？

• And straitened economic circumstances now could present new business opportunities to gangsters of all types.

  并且，如今拮据的经济环境会给所有类型的歹徒提供新的商机。