手头拮据

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。

"The address, too," she added to herself. They must be hard up.

"这个地址也很说明问题，"她又对自己说，他们一定是手头拮据了。

She was a fairy godmother to her poorer friends.

她经常接济那些手头拮据的朋友。

He's starting to feel the pinch.

他开始感到手头拮据。

Instead, my friend was always hard up for cash.

相反，我的朋友总是手头拮据。

He's pretty hard-up.

他手头拮据。

Hard-up families can also apply for food stamps, which are relatively easy to claim. The number of Americans receiving them has risen sharply, from 24.9m in September 2007 to 33.2m in March this year.

手头拮据的家庭还可以相对较容易的申请到食品劵，得到这一项补贴的美国人口增长迅猛，从2007年9月的247万人增加到今年3月的332万人。

Michelle's family, by contrast, was hard-up but intact.

相比之下，米歇尔一家虽然手头拮据但完好无缺。

Many were Jewish. Leaders of the Jewish community offered money to her hard-up mother for young Irena's education.

因多为犹太病号，又恰逢其母手头拮据，于是犹太社区的大佬们出面为小伊雷娜提供了助学款。

Upon this, he pulls out an old Pouch, and gives me 160 Portugal Moidores in Gold; and giving me the Writing of his Title to the Ship, which his Son was gone to the Brasils in, of which he was a Quarter Part Owner, and his Son another, he puts them both into my Hands for Security of the rest.

拿出来后会不会使他手头拮据？他告诉我说，拮据当然会拮据一些，但那是我的钱，而且，目前我比他更需要这笔钱。这位善良的老人所说的话，充满了真挚的友情。他一边说，我一边止不住流泪。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。