They would have continued to struggle against economic odds and would have lived in obscurity.

这人会继续为克服经济上的拮据而奋斗，并默默无闻地活下去。

I admit I do feel sorry for my friend. He had enough money to " live like a king." Instead, he is back to " living on a shoestring" -- a very low budget.

我承认对朋友感到抱歉，他曾经生活很好，但再次回到生活拮据的状态。

Remembering the bitter hungry days at Tara and her more recent penury, Scarlett felt that she could never eat enough of these rich dishes.

思嘉想到过去在塔拉挨饿的苦日子，又想到久前拮据的生活，起这些丰盛的菜肴来，觉得老够。

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

他很大方；那些手头拮据的人一方面嘲笑他那么天真地轻信他们编造的幸故事，一方面厚颜无耻地伸手向他借。

Feeling the pinch - you mean feeling poor. Yes, I'm always feeling the pinch. So come on Finn, tell us how we can make some money.

经济拮据，你的意思是穷。是的，我总是经济拮据。所以，来吧，菲恩，告诉我们如何才能赚到。

Some observers saw that as a sign that households were strapped for cash.

一些观察人士认为，这是金拮据的迹象。

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

手头拮据的世界各国政府正计划对在线服务征税。

New Jersey is not the only state that is feeling the pinch.

新泽西州并是唯一一个感到人手拮据的州。

Stingy folk can buy a mass-market 380ml-plastic bottle for as little as 1.5 yuan ($0.22).

拮据的人可以花1。5元(0。22美元)买到一个380毫升的大众市场塑料包装水。

But they could nevertheless be a boon to an organisation whose budgets are being squeezed by federal tight-fistedness as well as cost overruns on the James Webb space telescope, an $8.8 billion (and counting) successor to Hubble.

但是他们说詹姆斯-韦伯太空望远镜的预算能在拮据的联邦政府下艰难地获得通过已经是一件好事，因为这位哈勃望远镜的继任者已远超预算，达到了88亿美元（还并非最终值）。

Luckily for Kant, he was a popular lecturer and also an industrious one and so he eked out a meager living.

康德很幸运，他大受欢迎，当然很勤奋，勉强维持住了拮据的生活。

When this happens, poor people have to " tighten their belts" and live on less money than usual. I hate when I have to live on less money.

这时，没的人只能“扎紧腰带”，比平时花得更少。我讨厌那些拮据的日子。

She was born in 1956, just five years after Sally Ride, but born into much humbler circumstances, in a little town called Elmira, New York.

她出生于1956年，只比萨莉·莱德晚五年，但她出生在一个更拮据的环境中，在纽约一个叫埃尔迈拉的小镇。

It helps us deal with some of our health issues and it helps make our city more affordable for folks of limited means.

它能帮助我们解决一些健康问题，并且让收入拮据的人们出行更方便。

What unites them is the economic pinch and anger at a president who seems far removed from their daily hardships.

而将这些人联系在一起的是经济拮据还有对总统的愤怒，因为这名总统似乎完全体会到他们的日常困难。

He notes that financially poor parents have been accepting unusually low dowries.

他指出，经济拮据的父母一直在接受异常低的嫁妆。

Do you come from an economically strained household?

你是否来自经济拮据的？

Stretched consumers are now less able to pay a green premium, suggests one bigwig.

一位业内大佬指出，如今经济拮据的消费者更难以承受绿色溢价。

I think this idea that to be spiritual and broke needs to be shattered.

我认为这种“要精神富足就得经济拮据”的观念需要被打破。

Maybe you grew up where money was really tight.

或许你成长于一个经济拮据的环境。