Some observers saw that as a sign that households were strapped for cash.

一些观察人士认为，这是家庭现金拮据的迹象。

Cash-strapped governments around the world are planning to whack taxes on online services.

手头拮据的世界各国政府正计划对务征税。

New Jersey is not the only state that is feeling the pinch.

新泽西州并不是唯一一个感到人手拮据的州。

Stingy folk can buy a mass-market 380ml-plastic bottle for as little as 1.5 yuan ($0.22).

拮据的人可以花1。5元(0。22美元)买到一个380毫升的大众市场塑料包装水。

The man for ever pinched in circumstances can live only for himself.

永远处境拮据的人只能为自己而活。

He notes that financially poor parents have been accepting unusually low dowries.

他指出，经济拮据的父母一直接受异常低的嫁妆。

Stretched consumers are now less able to pay a green premium, suggests one bigwig.

一位大人物表示，现拮据的消费者已经无力支付色能源溢价。

They would have continued to struggle against economic odds and would have lived in obscurity.

这家人会继续为克经济上的拮据而奋斗，并默默无闻地活下去。

Additionally, studying abroad can be expensive, and students may struggle with financial constraints.

此外，出国留学可能很昂贵，学生可能会经济拮据的情况下苦苦挣扎。

Luckily for Kant, he was a popular lecturer and also an industrious one and so he eked out a meager living.

康德很幸运，他大受欢迎，当然也很勤奋，勉强维持住了拮据的生活。

I know about the money, the lies.

我知道你的拮据 你的谎言。

It helps us deal with some of our health issues and it helps make our city more affordable for folks of limited means.

它能帮助我们解决一些健康问题，并且让收入拮据的人们出行更方便。

She was very brave in bearing with all the discomforts of a poor, pinched existence, having a wonderfully sweet temper.

她非常勇敢地忍受贫穷、拮据的生活带来的所有不适， 而且脾气非常好。

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们编造的不幸故事，一方面厚颜无耻地伸手向他借钱。

What unites them is the economic pinch and anger at a president who seems far removed from their daily hardships.

而将这些人联系一起的是经济拮据还有对总统的愤怒，因为这名总统似乎完全体会不到他们的日常困难。

Remembering the bitter hungry days at Tara and her more recent penury, Scarlett felt that she could never eat enough of these rich dishes.

思嘉想到过去塔拉挨饿的苦日子，又想到不久前拮据的生活，吃起这些丰盛的菜肴来，觉得老也吃不够。

The concept of cash-strapped students and younger members of society being gainfully employed over the summer period is not a new one.

让经济拮据的学生和社会上的年轻成员暑假期间获得有酬工作的概念并不是一个新概念。

She was born in 1956, just five years after Sally Ride, but born into much humbler circumstances, in a little town called Elmira, New York.

她出生于1956年，只比萨莉·莱德晚五年，但她出生一个更拮据的环境中，纽约一个叫埃尔迈拉的小镇。

With the profits from these and other operations, he began loaning money to kings, to hard-pressed members of the nobility, and to the church.

凭借这些和其他业务的利润，他开始向国王、经济拮据的贵族成员和教会借钱。

But for local governments in today's more straitened times, " firefighting is going to end up overwhelming attempts to think long term" , he says.

但对于如今经济更为拮据的地方政府来说，“救火行动最终将取代长远思考” ，他表示。