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.
八口之家日子过得很拮据。
他十岁时父亲去世了，家里生活变得很拮据。
His father died when he was ten, leaving the family in straitened circumstances.
他的积蓄好比一个舒适的垫子，可以缓解拮据之苦。
His savings were a comfortable cushion against financial problems.
我们现在看到的这些人有三到四份兼职工作，但他们依然经济拮据。
The people we see now have three or four part-time jobs and they're still right on the edge financially.
两位津巴布韦学者计划开办一所大学，以帮助那些因家庭责任或经济拮据而中断教育的非洲妇女。
Two Zimbabwean academics plan to open a university to help African women whose education was interrupted by either family commitments or financial constraints.
人们感到“拮据”，因为他们不断增加的收入常常不能满足他们不断增长的需求，包括更大的房子，更多的医疗保健，更多的教育，更快的网络连接。
People feel "squeezed" because their rising incomes often don't satisfy their rising wants—for bigger homes, more health care, more education, faster Internet connections.
电视的普及和演出经费拮据致使很多剧院倒闭。
Television and the difficulty of financing plays have helped to close many theatres.
相比之下，米歇尔一家虽然手头拮据但完好无缺。
冉阿让作这种短期旅行，常常是在家用拮据的时候。
It was usually when money was lacking in the house that jean Valjean took these little trips.
另一方面，我从未感到生活拮据，我也不奢求很多东西。
On the other hand, I never felt deprived, I didn't want for much of anything.
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.
幸好，现在饲养成本慢慢下降，减轻了养猪户拮据的程度。
Thankfully, slowly declining feed costs are now easing the squeeze on farmers.
可是在目前财政拮据的时代，上述各项政策更难筹措资金。
In today's straitened times, such policies are harder to finance.
因为父母的反对和经济上的拮据，他们的婚姻一开始就有些不稳固。
Because of her parents' opposition and their financial difficulties, the marriage got off to a rather rocky start.
经济拮据使她的生命更顽强。她不得不被迫工作直到1965年去世。
Financial worries dogged her life, and she was forced to work until her death in 1965.
而Capita仍然希望能在英国拮据的财政状况里成为少数几个赢家之一。
But Capita also hopes to be one of the few winners from Britain's looming fiscal austerity.
他们中半数人说有足够的钱购买食品和衣服，而在买耐用商品时就显得拮据了。
Half of them say they have enough money for food and clothes but struggle to buy durable goods.
众所周知，经营一家成功的餐厅总是困难重重，特别是在当下这样的拮据时期。
Running a successful restaurant has always been notoriously difficult, especially in lean times such as these.
一些金钱拮据的地区正在放弃维持柏油路，取而代之的是碎石路或仅是维持原状。
Some cash strapped places are giving up on the idea of maintaining paved roads altogether, allowing them instead to return to gravel or to nature.
减少开销可以最大份额地弥补财政拮据，但英国预算漏洞之大，增加税收在所难免。
Spending cuts should make up the lion's share of the fiscal squeeze but such is the scale of Britain's budgetary hole that tax increases will be hard to avoid.
中文报纸《天天日报》昨日结业。 天天经营四十年，因竞争激烈和经济拮据而结业。
Chinese-language newspaper Tin Tin Daily News closed yesterday after four decades of publishing， blaming fierce competition and a flagging economy.
在这拮据的时期，路易·威登、卡地亚表和宾利汽车这些奢侈品要做好过冬的准备了。
Louis Vuitton, Cartier and Bentley should perhaps be bracing themselves for leaner times.
换句话说，就目前而言利用暴力犯罪的流行程度来预测择偶偏好只适用于一个相对拮据的国家。
In other words, the prevalence of violent crime seems to predict mating preferences only in so far as it reflects a country's relative penury.
第二个原因则在于，在目前经济衰退，大家都觉得拮据的时期，炫耀自己的钱财仿佛并不合适。
The second reason is a feeling that it is wrong to show off at a time when the economy is in recession and people are feeling poor.
如果当前低迷的价格持续超过一年或继续下跌，即使那些原本筹资安全的公司也将开始变得拮据。
And if the depressed prices continue for more than a year or prices fall further, even companies that are thought be safely capitalised will begin to be stretched.
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.
CIT是一个现金拮据的美国商业银行，自称无法获得联邦挽救。据揣测，它将不得不宣告破产。
CIT, a cash-strapped American commercial lender, fuelled speculation that it may have to go into bankruptcy when it said that it was unlikely to get a federal bail-out.
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.
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.
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