I hope so. But I'm always caught short.

我希望是如此，但是我总是搞得紧巴巴的。

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Amy needed eggs for her cake, but she was caught short.

艾米做蛋糕需要鸡蛋，便她却正缺此货。

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Eg. Mrs Hobbs was caught short when the newspaper boy came for his money a day early.

报童提早一天来收报费，霍布斯太太的钱不够交付。

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Sometimes,poor people even get caught short.

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And it's at the height of this vision of our floral decoration of Lycidas' hearse that the speaker is suddenly caught up short.

都到了用鲜花装饰利西达斯的灵车,的时候了读者才突然领会到。

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First-time visitors to Myanmar (Burma) can be caught short by its cash-only style of commerce.

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When the metals popped after U.S. officials reached a fiscal cliff deal, they were caught short with produced inventory, says Hug.

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In Argentina's last big economic crash, in the 1980s, says Mr Preusche, cash-generating firms lent their surpluses to those caught short.

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