每当我手头拮据的时候，他总是倾囊相助。
Whenever I'm hard up for money, he will empty his purse to help me.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
因此，他们乐于把资金投入非正规渠道，借给那些资金拮据的年轻私营企业，每年收取20%至30%的利息。
They are therefore happy to put money into informal channels that lend to cash-strapped young private companies that will pay 20-30 per cent a year to obtain it.
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.
二十世纪末，枫华（FungWah）公交公司开始在纽约唐人街和波士顿唐人街之间往返运送大学生和其他经济拮据的美国人，单程票价为10美元。
By the end of the decade, the Fung Wah bus company had begun shuttling college students and other cash-strapped Americans between New York's Chinatown and Boston's for $10 each way.
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.
她的父母手头很拮据。
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.
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.
供儿子上大学期间我们的生活非常拮据。
他们经济很拮据，甚至付不出杂货店的欠帐。
They were so hard pressed that they couldn't even pay the grocery bill.
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.
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.
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.
他们的日子现在过的很拮据。
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.
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.
她听说我对一位备受仰慕的美女钟情有加，担心我因为生活拮据而不敢论及婚事，便想叮嘱我：“女人不在乎钱。”
She had heard that I was much about with a beautiful, admired woman and feared that I did not speak of marriage because I was poor, and wanted to say to me "women care nothing about money."
我的病情一年比一年差，而我们的日子也越来越拮据。
With each passing year, my disease got worse and our life got more constricted.
本周二公布的数据显示，今年英国人每周看电视的时间增加了约两个半小时，一方面是因为经济拮据使人们待在家里的时间增多，而另外一方面则是因为可看的电视节目更多了。
Britons have been watching almost 2-1/2 hours more television a week this year as cash-strapped people stay at home more -- and because there's more to watch, figures showed on Tuesday.
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.
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.
应用推荐