straiten

英

美

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
• 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。