| 词汇 | straitened |
| 释义 | straitened adjective[ before noun ] formaluk /ˈstreɪ.tənd/ us /ˈstreɪ.tənd/ A straitened situation is difficult because there is much less money available to you than there was in the past: 拮据的，窘迫的;经济状况恶化的 A lot of people are finding themselves in very straitened circumstances because of the recession.因为经济萧条，很多人生活拮据。 Examples of straitenedstraitened But in these days of straitened library budgets and stratospheric prices, it would be wrong to pull punches. This was a consequence of straitened economic circumstances rather than fewer applications for assistance. At the start of their marriage, however, the couple faced straitened circumstances. Some participants accepted poor or insufficient care and restrained their own demands because they felt the government's straitened economic circumstances required it. In these straitened times, courtesy of the left veering right, university libraries have to balk at being bilked. Tailleferre died in straitened circumstances personally, financially and artistically. The ' struggle ' goes on in the frontier nation, in much the same ways as it always has, and even the current straitened economic circumstances have been witnessed before. Tusker's mismanagement makes their financial circumstances more straitened than these would have been anyway. In other words, desire, straitened within the self, focuses on objects that appear to offer an ultimate fulfillment that would put an end to the struggle and thus provide self-completion. A parish priest in straitened financial circumstances, preoccupied with how to make both ends meet, cannot exercise his ministry as he should, preparing sermons and administering the sacraments. The modernization programme launched in the 1850s was intended to enable the state to adapt to its straitened circumstances in the wake of the second war. Many of these men are now in extremely straitened circumstances. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I was also asked about people in straitened circumstances to whom the release of credits would be a substantial relief. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am also aware of the straitened circumstances in which some of these officers are now living. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I cannot pretend that in present straitened circumstances it will feel that it is a very high priority. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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