手头

I'd love to go for dinner with you guys, but I'm a bit strapped for cash .

我很想和你们一起吃晚餐，可是我手头有点紧。

I'm strapped for time/money.

我没有时间/我手头有点紧

Be careful not to cut into the quick, and always have a styptic on hand when cutting toenails, just in case.

小心，不要切入快，总是有止血时，手头上切割脚趾，以防万一。

These days when people are short on cash, they head for an ATM, and that's what more and more criminals are doing, but they are not just withdrawing a few bucks, as NBC's Don Teague would show us they are stealing the whole machine.

这些天当人们手头现金短缺时，他们一头扎进ATM机取款，而与此同时，罪犯们也做着同样的事情，但他们不是简单取走几张钞票了事，他们把整个ATM机都偷走了。

The text is severed from its past and the interpreter stands at the far end of a yawning chasm with only the text in hand.

文本与过去分离，解释者处在大裂缝的一边，手头只有文本。

Is TIG welding the best welding process for the job at hand?

TIG焊是手头工件最好的焊接工艺吗？

We all know that money's tight.

我们都知道，目前手头较紧。

Have a lot of time on my hands, I don't know how to spend it!

我手头上有许多时间，但是不知道怎么过。

You know, sometimes it is convenient and timesaving to keep a catalogue of relevant ads at hand, because you can choose whatever you like in advance and save your trouble of idle strolling in the shopping mall.

你知道，有时候手头有本相关广告目录的话，很方便，很节省时间，因为你可以提前选择任何你喜欢的东西，省去了你在商场闲逛的麻烦。

You have to base your decisions on the reality of the $50,000 you have now.

你应该根据手头的50000美元做决定。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。