拮据

You must increase your income , or you will get trapped in financial embarrassments .

你必须增加收入，否则你就会被困于经济拮据。

You must increase your income, or you'll get trapped in financial embarrassments.

你必须增加收入，否则你就会被困于经济拮据。

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 hard-up Western governments now have a recipe for raising levies that are lucrative, wildly popular and come with the imprimatur of capitalism's policeman.

很多财政拮据的西方国家政府，现在有了个既有利可图又深得民心的好办法，而且这办法还有来自资本主义警察的授权。

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。

Rebecca Kazhdan, a 20-year-old Boston Uniersity junior from Hillsdale, N.J., said she was hard-up for money during her sophomore year when she saw an adertisement offering $50 for blood donors.

20岁的Rebecca Kazhdan来自纽泽西州Hillsdale，现在是波士顿大学大三学生，她说在看到一个捐献血液可以挣50美元的广告之前，一直经济拮据。

Our tenant was a couple with a child from the rural area, now working in the city and they looked hardscrabble.

租房的是一对进城打工夫妇，带着孩子，看样子条件很拮据。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。