He was generous, and the needy, laughing at him because he believed so naively their stories of distress, borrowed from him with effrontery.

很大方；那些手头拮据人一方面嘲笑那么天真地轻信们编造不幸故事，一方面厚颜无耻地伸手向借钱。

Cash-strapped governments around the world are planning to whack taxes on online services.

手头拮据世界各国政府正计划对在线服务征税。

Young people tend to be cash-strapped, so even a small tax increase could deter use.

年轻人往往手头拮据，因此即使是小幅增税也可能阻碍们购买。

I'd like to help you, Abbey, but I'm a bit short myself.

我很愿意帮助你，艾，可是我自己也手头拮据。

But, Al spent too much money. Soon my friend was " down and out" again. He had no money left. He was back to being " strapped for cash."

但阿尔花钱多，很快就再度穷困潦倒，身无分文，再次手头拮据。

The downside of a weaker pound is that the price of imported goods, such as oil, will increase, further squeezing consumer spending.

疲软英镑造成了一种下降趋势，这种趋势使得类似石油这样进口商品价格增加，并使消费者手头更加拮据。

The past few months of robust grocery store sales would suggest shoppers in the US aren't stretched for cash.

过去几个月美国食品杂货店强劲销售额是否意味着消费者手头不再拮据了？

The two were so strapped for cash that they lived by candlelight subsisting on oatmeal mixed with Mayonnaise.

两个人手头拮据，只能在烛光下靠拌着蛋燕麦片过活。

To feel the pinch is to suffer painful pressure involving money.

感到手头拮据就是承受涉及金钱痛苦压力。

As it is, we're strapped and I don't know how we're going to continue.

事实上，我们手头拮据， 我不知道我们将如何继续下去。

Money can be tight at certain times in our lives.

生活中某些时期，我们可能会手头拮据。

Money was tight and everyone had to help out.

手头拮据，大家都得帮忙。

And I just was like, and so broke in a tiny apartment.

我只是想着，住在那么小公寓里，手头如此拮据。

Now, you had no money, but it was wasted on them.

现在，你手头拮据，却还是把钱浪费在们身上。

Oh yeah, that's why I always feel broke.

哦，对啊，难怪我总觉得自己手头拮据。

And if wages don't go up correspondingly, then people feel broke.

如果工资没有相应上涨，人们就会感到手头拮据。

It's true we're hard up, but it simply isn't worth it at the price.

确，我们手头拮据， 但以这个价格根本不值得。

So another phrase you might use to talk about a time when you don't have enough money is to say, money is tight right now or things are tight right now.

因此，当你想表达手头拮据时，可以说“现在钱很紧”或“现在情况很紧”。

In this unfashionable region Catherine the Great, always indifferent to precedent and thrifty of purse, had built herself in her youth a many-peaked and cross-beamed cottage-orne on a bit of cheap land overlooking the bay.

在这个不合时宜地区， 叶卡捷琳娜大帝总是对先例漠不关心，手头拮据，在她年轻时候就在一块俯瞰海湾廉价土地上为自己建造了一座多顶、横梁小屋。

Basically, I'm 22, broke, have no friends in the state, and I'm just seeking out advice or maybe affirmation that I am not alone in this type of situation.

基本上，我22岁，手头拮据，在这个州没有朋友，只是想寻求一些建议， 或者确认一下， 像我这样情况并不孤单。