The family faced straitened circumstances following his father's death when he was ten years old.

在他十岁时父亲去世后，这个家庭陷入了经济拮据的境地。

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Straitened financial circumstances have fueled widespread speculation about cuts in diplomatic budgets.

当前拮据的财政状况引发了关于削减外交预算的广泛猜测。

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Straitened means limited or difficult, especially financially.

The small business was operating in straitened conditions due to the economic downturn.

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The small business now faces straitened circumstances after the economic downturn.

这家小型企业在经济衰退后面临拮据的境况。

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Still, on balance, the benefits probably outweigh the costs, particularly in straitened times.

然而, 公平的说, 收益还是可以抵消成本的, 尤其是在困难时期.

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By the breath of God frost is given : and the breadth of the waters is straitened.

10神嘘气成冰.宽阔之水也都凝结.

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They were straitened for money.

他们苦于没有钱缮.

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Day by day, they lived more and more straitened.

日子一天天的过去, 这家人的生活越来越困苦.

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He has been in straitened circumstances.

他已经处于贫困的境地.

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I grow up in straitened but full of love circumstances.

我是在物质条件贫乏但却充满爱心的环境下长大.

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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.

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Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.

你们狭窄,原不在乎我们, 是在乎自己的心肠狭窄.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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In this confinement I began to be straitened for food.

在这种被困的情况下,我的粮食渐渐缺乏起来.

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The steps of his strength shall be straitened , and his own counsel shall cast him down.

他坚强的脚步必见狭窄.自己的计谋必将他绊倒.

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He is straitened for want of money.

他因缺钱而受窘.

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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.

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They were straitened for money [ time ].

他们苦于没有钱 [ 时间 ].

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The financial crisis that began with the collapse of Lehman straitened American resources even further.

始于雷曼兄弟(LehmanBrothers)倒闭的本次金融危机,又进一步收紧了美国的资源.

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He found himself in straitened circumstances.

他发现自己处于经济拮据状态下.

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At present , he was a person straitened in his circumstances.

他现在处境困窘.

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He was a writer living in straitened circumstances.

他是一个生活拮据的作家.

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I'm straitened for money.

我现在经济有点拮据.

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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.

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Proposed cuts to the diplomatic budget have sparked much debate in these straitened economic times.

削减外交预算的提议在这些经济拮据的时期引发了很多争论。

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The family was plunged into straitened circumstances after his father's death during his tenth year.

他十岁那年父亲离世后，一家人陷入了经济窘迫的境地。

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