straitened

/streyt-n/US // ˈstreɪt n //UK // (ˈstreɪtən) //

拮据的,狭隘的,狭窄的,拮据

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb

1
- : to put into difficulties, especially financial ones: His obligations had straitened him.
- : to restrict in range, extent, amount, pecuniary means, etc: Poverty straitens one's way of living.
- : Archaic. to make narrow.to confine within narrow limits.

verblimit

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Such straitened times are simply ghastly, as fans of Downton will know.
Its individual countries will survive, of course, albeit in unnecessarily straitened circumstances.
Even in straitened times, idiosyncratic literature should have its place.
For the bed is straitened, so that one must fall out, and a short covering cannot cover both.
And I cut off three shepherds in one month, and my soul was straitened in their regard: for their soul also varied in my regard.
During the first years of his life the parents may have lived in somewhat straitened circumstances.
Both besiegers and besieged were now becoming straitened for ammunition, for the consumption had been immense.
Carlyle still remained in straitened circumstances, although his reputation was now established.

/streyt-n/US // ˈstreɪt n //UK // (ˈstreɪtən) //

拮据的,狭隘的,狭窄的,拮据

v.有主动词 verb

1
- : to put into difficulties, especially financial ones: His obligations had straitened him.
- : to restrict in range, extent, amount, pecuniary means, etc: Poverty straitens one's way of living.
- : Archaic. to make narrow.to confine within narrow limits.

verblimit

Synonyms

Antonyms

Such straitened times are simply ghastly, as fans of Downton will know.
Its individual countries will survive, of course, albeit in unnecessarily straitened circumstances.
Even in straitened times, idiosyncratic literature should have its place.
For the bed is straitened, so that one must fall out, and a short covering cannot cover both.
And I cut off three shepherds in one month, and my soul was straitened in their regard: for their soul also varied in my regard.
During the first years of his life the parents may have lived in somewhat straitened circumstances.
Both besiegers and besieged were now becoming straitened for ammunition, for the consumption had been immense.
Carlyle still remained in straitened circumstances, although his reputation was now established.