straiten
['streitn]
vt. 使为难, 使穷困, 限制
例句与用法:
Danish navigator and explorer who in1728 sailed through the Bering Strait, proving(though he did not realize it at the time) that Asia and North America are separate continents.
白令,维图斯1681-1741丹麦航海家、探险家,1728年驾船穿越白令海峡,证明(尽管他当时不知道)亚洲和北美洲是两片分开的大陆
A province of southeast China on the East China Sea and the Formosa Strait. Agriculture and fishing are important to its economy. Fuzhou is the capital. Population, 27,130,000.
福建中国东南部的一个省份,濒临东海和台湾海峡。经济以农业和渔业为主,省会为福州。人口27,130, 000
I hear you are in poor financial straits.
我听说你处于经济困难之中。
The door is rather strait.
这门相当窄。
词形变化:
动词过去式: straitened |
动词过去分词: straitened |
动词现在分词: straitening |
动词第三人称单数: straitens |
vt.
1. 使变窄, 使变紧
2. 使窘迫, 使困难
vi.
变窄, 变紧
straitenstraitenD.J.:[ˈstreitn]K.K.:[ˈstretn]vt.1.■使穷困,使为难,限制
straiten['streitən]vt.1.■使窘迫,使困苦[常用被动语态]:I'm straitened for money.我现在经济有点拮据。It's straitened in time.时间太紧迫了。2.■限制…的范围(或程度、资金、数量等):to straiten the number of people entering into the stadium限制进入体育场的人数3.■[古语]使变窄,使变紧vi.1.■[古语]变窄,变紧
straitenstraiten[ˈstreitn]vt.1.■[常用被动语态]使缺乏; 使困难; 使狭窄; 使受限制; 收缩in straitened circumstances在穷困中He is straitened for want of money.他因缺钱而受窘。
straitenverb- (archaic)make or become narrow
(古)(使)变窄
[with obj.]the passage was straitened by tables.
桌子使过道变得很窄了。
straiten
动词 straiten:
squeeze together
straiten
■43For the days shall come upon thee, and thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and straiten thee on every side,
43的确,日子将临于你,你的仇敌要在你四周筑起壁垒,包围你,四面窘困你;
■When I’m lonely be my friend, when I’m sad be my joy, when I’m hurt be my mender and my fixer, when I’m wrong straiten me out and be my righteousness.
主啊!请做我孤独时的朋友,悲伤时的喜乐;受伤害时的修复者,将我从错误中拯救出来,成为我的公义。
■Therefore, first I asked him if his circumstances admitted him to spare so much money at that time, and if it would not straiten him.
于是我首先问他,以他目前的情况,能不能拿出这么多的钱,拿出来会不会使他手头拮据。
■Therefore, first I asked him if his circumstances admitted him to spare so much money at that time, and if it would not straiten him
于是我首先问他,以他目前的情况,能不能拿出这么多的钱,拿出来会不会使他手头拮据。
■And after enjoining me secrecy, they told me, that they had a mind to fit out a ship to go to guinea, that they had all plantations as well as I, and were straiten'd for nothing so much as servants;
但他们说,这建议必须保密。因此他们要求我严守秘密。然后,他们对我说,他们想装备一条船去几内亚。他们说,他们都像我一样有种植园,但最感缺乏的是劳动力。
■Obigation should straiten ourselves and keep our rights to reduce the conflicts with the patients
加强自律与维权减少医患矛盾与纠纷
■5 Let them become as dust before the wind : and let the angel of the Lord straiten them.
我寻求了上主,他听了我的祈求:由我受的一切惊惶中,将我救出。
■to straiten the number of people entering into the stadium
限制进入体育场的人数
习惯用语be straitened for1.■缺乏, 苦于没有