拮据 short of money; hard up; in straitened circumstances 经济拮据 in financial strait; 手头拮据 be hard up for money; 父亲失业了, 我们现在经济十分拮据。 now that father's lost his job, we're in serious strains. 这使他暂时手头拮据。 that has left him temporarily short
手头拮据 be hard up for money; be hard pressed [pushed] for money; be in low water; be low in pocket; be out of pocket; feel the draught; go [run] on the rocks; in hard need of money; short of funds
A family on a budget can not afford meat every day . 经济拮据的家庭不能每天享用肉食。
Even willing innovators may be faced with capital constraints . 甚至自愿的革新者也可能面临着资本拮据的困难。
Whenever i 'm hard up for money , he will empty his purse to help me . 每当我手头拮据的时候,他总是倾囊相助。
I could not avoid communicating to her something of what lay hardest upon my mind and particularly the narrowness of my circumstance . 我免不了告诉她一些压在我心头上的最沉重的事情,尤其是我财力拮据的情况。
He was generous, and the needy, laughing at him because he believed so naively their stories of distress, borrowed from him with effrontery . 他很大方,那些手头拮据的人一方面嘲笑他那么天真地轻信他编造的不幸故事,一方面厚颜无耻地伸手向他借钱。
A family on a budget can t afford meat every day 经济拮据的家庭不能每天享用肉食
He was back to being strapped for cash 他重新回到紧张拮据的日子里。
I always spend my cost of living in the clothes and then live in uptight 常常把生活费拿去买衣服以至于过着很拮据的生活。
Did you notice that cash - strapped couples are buying fewer engagement rings 你是否留意到现在拮据的夫妻很少购买订婚戒指吗?
In his first distress , he cut down the tip to five , then to nothing 他在刚开始感到拮据的时候,把小费减为分,然后就分文不给了。