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straiten

网络  使为难; 限制; 使穷困; 变紧; 穷困; 变窄

过去分词:straitened 过去式:straitened 现在分词:straitening 第三人称单数:straitens 

英英释义

verb

  • squeeze together
    1. bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship
        Synonym:distress

      双语例句

      • Your going to go down and straiten out those chair people.
        你要去和椅店的人协调清楚。
      • 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。
      • 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。