straiten

1. He told me, he could not say but it might straiten him a little; but however it was my Money, and I might want it more than he.
   拿出来后会不会使他手头拮据？他告诉我说，拮据当然会拮据一些，但那是我的钱，而且，目前我比他更需要这笔钱。
2. Therefore, first I asked him if his circumstances admitted him to spare so much money at that time, and if it would not straiten him.
   于是我首先问他，以他目前的情况，能不能拿出这么多的钱，拿出来会不会使他手头拮据。
3. Your going to go down and straiten out those chair people.
   你要去和椅店的人协调清楚。

verb

1. squeeze together

2. bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship

   Synonym:    distress