英语释义

1. to make tight or tighter

2. to become tight or tighter

3. to practice strict economy

4. to make (something) tight or tighter or to become tight or tighter

5. to make or become tight
He tightened his grip.

英汉例句

• with a broad consensus that a global economic recovery has begun, policymakers are debating how quickly to turn off stimulus spending and tighten their belts in order to control ballooning debt.

  随着全球经济复苏已经开始成为广泛共识，政策制定者们在讨论如何迅速停止刺激性支出，并勒紧腰带以控制暴涨的债务。

• when this happens, poor people have to tighten their belts and live on less money than usual.

  出现这样的状况，穷人们就必须来劲裤腰带，要用并平时更少的钱来生活。

• so for our people to be prepared, both physically and psychologically, to tighten their belts for a long time might be helpful.

  因此，民众应当做好长期勒紧裤腰带的生理和心理上的準备，这可能是有用的解决方式。

• he thinks norwegians should use their oil wealth to tighten their belts in carbon terms, rather than bingeing.

  他认为，挪威人应该好好利用他们自己的石油财富，来减少烟尘排放，而不是大度浪费。

• so an increase may make people tighten their belts a bit more and in that case the difficulty we could have is that shops will be affected and the greater economy affected also.

  增值税增加应该会使人们勒紧腰带过日子，在这种情况下，商店营业额会受影响，经济形势也会受影响。

• but now the situation has changed, and consumers around the world began to tighten their belts at the same time, chinese demand has started to slow down.

  但现在情况发生了变化，在全球消费者开始节衣缩食的同时，中国的需求也开始放缓。

• this reflects the downturn in domestic demand as consumers tighten their belts and as unemployment rises (retail sales continue to fall sharply).

  这反映出随着消费者勒紧裤腰子，失业率上升（零售价格持续急剧下降），内需开始下降。

相似词

strain拉紧；尽力

stretch（四肢或身体的）舒展；（肌肉的）伸张；（材料或服装的）伸展力；困难的任务；（陆地或水域）连绵的一片；（时间）连续的一段；（非正式）服刑期；（赛马跑道的）终点直道；抢风航行的距离；（非正式）加长机动车

tauten拉紧；使绷紧

tense时态

相反词

loosen(Loosen)人名；(德)洛森

slackad 松散地

slacken使缓慢；使松弛