straitened 的定义
- 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.
straitened 近义词
limit
distress
更多straitened例句
- 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.