straitened

adj.

1. 经济拮据的；穷困的；经济状况恶化的
   without enough money or as much money as there was before
   1. The family of eight was living in straitened circumstances .
      八口之家日子过得很拮据。

1. ADJ-GRADED 经济拮据的;穷困潦倒的
   If someone is living in straitened circumstances, they do not have as much money as they used to, and are finding it very hard to buy or pay for everything that they need.
   1. His father died when he was ten, leaving the family in straitened circumstances...
      他 10 岁时父亲去世了，家里生活变得很拮据。
   2. There is much talk of cuts in the diplomatic service in these straitened times.
      在如今经济不景气的情况下，有很多传言说要削减外交支出。

1. His father died when he was ten, leaving the family in straitened circumstances
   他10岁时父亲去世了，家里生活变得很拮据。
2. There is much talk of cuts in the diplomatic service in these straitened times.
   在如今经济不景气的情况下，有很多传言说要削减外交支出。
3. But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
   我有当受的洗。还没有成就，我是何等的迫切呢。
4. O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened?
   雅各家阿，岂可说耶和华的心不忍耐吗（或作心肠狭窄吗）。
5. Out of her naive class consciousness, she showed sympathy for the poor. Despite her own straitened circumstances, she often went out of her way to help out those relatives who were even more needy than herself.
   母亲同情贫苦的人这是她朴素的阶级意识虽然自己不富裕，还周济和照顾比自己更穷的亲戚。
6. Limited to existing teaching resources are insufficient and with family in straitened circumstances, so the thing that I study is very limited!
   限于现有的教学资源不足及家境贫困，所以我所学的东西都很有限！
7. Which you'll find a much more straitened way of life than what I'm offering you?
   你发现哪一种生活方式是比我提供给你更令人不好受的？
8. Work-study and Mental Health of Students in Straitened Circumstances
   勤工助学对贫困大学生心理健康的作用
9. The disabled form a special social group in straitened circumstances.
   残疾人是一个特殊而困难的社会群体。
10. And Pharao will say of the children of Israel: They are straitened in the land, the desert hath shut them in.
    如此，法郎必然以为以色列子民在国境内迷了路，旷野困住了他们。
11. Straitened banks lend less, sucking money out of the economy.
    孱弱不堪的银行会收紧银根，将资金从经济中抽走。
12. He has been in straitened circumstances.
    他已经处于贫困的境地。
13. Instead of being able to offset a squeeze on margins with higher leverage and a rush into complex credit derivatives, they will have to operate in straitened circumstances, under tighter and more intrusive global regulatory oversight.
    他们非但不能借助增加负债和大举使用复杂的信用衍生品来抵消利润率所受的挤压，而且必须在限制重重的环境中，在更严厉和更具干预性的全球监管下运营。
14. We should improve the state policy and system for aiding students in straitened circumstances.
    完善国家资助贫困学生的政策和制度。
15. Zhu Min, the Chinese economist who is deputy managing director at the IMF, said recently that Chinese consumers accounted for just$ 2tn of demand compared with US consumers who, even in their current straitened circumstances, spent about$ 10tn a year.
    中国经济学家、IMF副总裁朱民最近表示，中国消费者的需求仅为2万亿美元，而美国消费者即使在当前拮据的情况下，每年依然要消费10万亿美元。
16. 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。
17. 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。
18. Is raising cash in straitened times a sign of weakness?
    在市场资金紧缺时期筹资是疲弱的迹象吗？
19. In straitened times, bankers 'pay scales can only be maintained at their expense.
    在经济不景气的时期，银行家要想保持薪资水平只能自己承受代价。
20. They were straitened for money [ time].
    他们苦于没有钱[时间]。
21. In these straitened times, you cannot knock hard cash even if it is just two-thirds what you almost received two years ago.
    在当前的窘困时期，你不可能拒绝现金即使只有两年前几乎可以获得的金额的三分之二。
22. He has been in straitened circumstances. disadvantaged group
    他已经处于贫困的境地。贫困阶层，境遇差的阶层，处于不利地位的群体
23. Their poverty, their straitened environment touched his heart.
    他们的穷困，他们的窘迫处境，触动了他的心。
24. 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。
25. The step of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down headlong.
    他强健的脚步要踌躇不前，他的计谋必使自己颠仆。
26. How long have they been in such straitened circumstances?
    他们陷入这样的艰难境遇有多久了？
27. At Ogilvy, the advertising agency, they are adapting their cards to reflect our straitened times.
    广告公司奥美（ogilvy）正在修改自己的名片，以反映目前所处的困难环境。
28. 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。
29. The culture of reward which the banks employed in a bullish marketplace must give way to a model which suits these straitened times.
    银行在牛市时期实行的奖励文化，必须让位于一种能够适应当前窘困时节的模式。
30. I had lived a lonely childhood and a boyhood straitened by war and overshadowed by bereavement.
    我度过了寂寞的童年，少年时代备受战争苦难，又由于丧母而变得黯淡无光。