消费者花钱少了，商家感到手头拮据。
Consumers are spending less and merchants are feeling the pinch.
相比之下，米歇尔一家虽然手头拮据但完好无缺。
因此，我们将钱给那些手头拮据的人，他们可能会花掉它。
So if we give money to people likely to be liquidity-constrained, they are likely to spend it.
或者我会说我们本月手头拮据但决不会说我为钱愁得要命。
Or I might say that we're pinched this month but never that I'm worried sick over money.
我仍然十分怀念大海，但手头拮据，不能直接开车去看海。
I did sorely miss the ocean, but couldn't afford to drive to the coast on my tight budget.
当时成龙的父母亲手头拮据，向朋友们借钱付清了医疗费用。
Jackie's parents were so poor that they had to borrow money from friends to pay the doctor.
他的公司面临破产，而且还有三个孩子要养。他开始感到手头拮据。
His company is facing bankruptcy and he has three kids to raise! He's starting to feel the pinch.
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。
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.
而且随着经济增长放缓使得对大宗商品的需求减少，那些原材料出口商将会开始感觉到手头拮据。
And, as softer economic growth weakens demand for commodities, exporters of raw materials will start to feel the pinch.
而通常在1月份才开始的冬季促销活动对圣诞节疯狂购物之后手头拮据的购物者来说已为时过晚。
The winter sales, usually in January, came too late for cash-strapped Christmas shoppers.
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。
He was generous, and the needy, laughing at him because he believed so naively their stories of distress, borrowed from him with effrontery.
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。
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.
故希望阁下能鼎力相助谋此类工作，不仅是因为本人目前手头拮据，而且我相信此类工作有助于我工作能力的提高。
So I hope you will be able to help me find this sort of employment, not only because I need the money, but also because this type of job would give me an opportunity to improve my ability.
尽管受到上述冲击，但最终与卡梅伦命运关系更密切的是英国依然脆弱的经济，以及手头拮据的英国人不断上涨的生活成本。
Despite the knock, ultimately Mr. Cameron s destiny is more closely linked to recovery of the countrys still-weak economy and to the ever-rising cost of living for cash-strapped britons.
然而眼下所有迹象都表明，由于手头拮据的消费者纷纷捂紧口袋，汽油价格下跌在不景气的经济面前将继续扮演微不足道的作用。
Still, all signs suggest that the troubled economy will continue to dwarf the fall in pump prices as hard-pressed consumers continue to cut back.
遭受重创的汽车业迫切需要喘息之机，因此，面对低于预期的销售量，失望的不仅仅是汽车厂商，同时也包括它们的衣食父母——手头拮据的美国消费者。
Slower than expected sales, therefore, will be disappointing not only for a battered auto industry dying for a break — but also for the strapped American consumers they're counting on.
我因为手头很拮据，同时也想做点有用的事，于是便提出了申请，但在提出申请的同时我也很担心，自己一无学位，二无教学经验，得到这份工作的可能性是微乎其微的。
Being very short of money and wanting to do something useful, I applied, fearing as I did so, that without a degree and with no experience in teaching my chances of getting the job were slim.
他不久前手头有点拮据，不过他已经有办法使自己的经济情况好转，因为我们给他的报酬很高。
He is a little out of case just now. However, he has taken a very good road to bring himself again, for we pay him very handsomely.
他不久前手头有点拮据，不过他已经有办法使自己的经济情况好转，因为我们给他的报酬很高。
He is a little out of case just now. However, he has taken a very good road to bring himself again, for we pay him very handsomely.
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