straiten

1 The black community Jackson grew up in was small and straitened, hit hard by years of redlining.

2 In “Seven Chances,” Keaton plays James Shannon, a partner in a straitened brokerage firm.

3 In such intimate exile, who’d believe the burn behind the house the straitened ocean written on the map?

4 This has now fallen to 16%, possibly an indication of more straitened circumstances.

5 This year's Stirling shortlist has been declared an "austerity" list, the prevalence of exposed concrete and stripped-back forms supposedly reflecting our straitened times.

6 No matter how straitened his finances, Trumbo always enjoyed living in grand style.

7 For one thing, while it seems nuts to make such a gaudy gesture in such straitened times on both sides of the Atlantic, De Palma's picture was itself a product of the Reaganomics-blitzed early 80s.

8 In the prologue, he describes himself as someone “not at all sure he has ever had a single ‘spiritually significant’ experience,” a pretty straitened admission even for an avowed atheist.

9 The Library Campaign argues that it is possible to protect or enhance services even in economically straitened times, pointing to the success of councils such as Lancashire and Southwark.

10 Yet, he acknowledges, in these financially straitened times, worries like this can seem faintly pointless.

11 A chance meeting in the park with a fedora-wearing fellow opens the door to an alternate universe: a gated community dedicated to recreating the social and cultural milieu of the straitened but structured American 1950s.

12 As bracing as these portraits of female potency and swagger are, they seem strangely straitened, relegated to the realms of animated fables, retooled fairy tales or action-driven fantasy.

13 I came away from the Court yearning for a rebirth of prose-poetry on the British stage, and convinced that, in straitened times, the rehearsed reading is a way of keeping our theatrical inheritance alive.

14 But sunflowers were also a humble but valued source of food in straitened times, a snack to be consumed with friends.

15 But Jackie’s bent for self-destruction may also stem from his citizenship in a country of straitened circumstances, one that now offers fewer and fewer opportunities to those not born to them.

16 She was raised by her mother, sometimes in straitened circumstances, in Lancaster, Pa. Bored at school, she rebelled — challenging teachers, lashing out at her mother, hanging out with hackers and languishing in school.

17 All of them lived in the hinterland of Marylebone railway terminus, in the typically straitened circumstances of the old London working class.

18 Fast food is now so cheap and readily available that its consumption is associated more with straitened circumstances than with affluent ones, but that wasn’t always the case.

19 Given the financially straitened times, it might seem to be grand folly.

20 Being further down the social scale, they cannot so easily disguise their straitened circumstances, but they remain fiercely respectable.

1 使困苦

trouble

2 困窘

uncomfortable embarrassed abashed awkwardly embarrassment awkwardness discomfiture nonplus straitness embarrass disconcert discomfit discountenance be hard pressed sticky difficulty pickle inconvenience stick corner hamper catch with his pants down

3 禁闭

mew close shut cage incarcerate immure lock into

4 使收缩

constringent constrict astrict

5 变窄

narrow

6 使窘迫

press embarrass mortify abash

7 使狭窄

narrow

8 限制

limitary limiting restrictive limitative downhold condition limit reserve disability parameter limitation restriction qualification modification clamp contraction stint constipation confinement embargo circumscription narrow conscribe reduce contract qualify restrict bound confine restrain imprison scant corset padlock constipate fetter swaddle abridge astrict set measures to bind down fence around cage in exclusive bar bind constraint restraint rein bridle abridgement zariba box chain regulate cramp hamper crib circumscribe trammel entrammel tie terminate block up hem in peg down block in astriction regulation string reservation curb stricture ring-fence determine modify pinch peg bottleneck

9 狭窄

unenlarged close limited narrow restricted strait confined stenotic stenosed straitly stenosis stricture narrowness coarctation straitness provincial hairline poky little boxy by an eyelash

10 窘迫

strait uneasy uneasily embarrassment uneasiness disconcertion press embarrass mortify abash with pants down hard-set embarras

11 折磨

cross torture harassment buffet ordeal excruciation prey gnaw ballyrag try weight press ride trouble bug murder weigh twist rack devil grind plague pinch harass torment haze martyr afflict crucify scourge molest wring pang pester harrow harry bedevil macerate scarify excruciate martyrize

12 困苦

hard pinch hardship rigor travail trouble pressure distress discomfort

13 收紧

take-up tighten catch in striction frap

14 收缩

constringent collected contracted contractile involuted contractible crispation gather shrink contraction shrinkage deflation constriction draw contract involute flex constringe astringe tuck constrict shrunken shrivel theta pinch constrictive contractive astriction constringency knot pinch striction narrow reef deflate astrict