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English translation for "捉襟见肘"

[ zhuōjīnjiànzhǒu ] 
pull down one's jacket to conceal the raggedness, only to expose one's elbows; be coming out at the elbows; be hard up; be in straitened circumstances; cannot make ends meet; expose the elbow when fastening one's jacket -- poor; expose one's elbow when drawing tight the lapel of one's jacket; have too many difficulties to cope with; have too many problems to tackle
Example Sentences:
1.Many people were still struggling to make ends meet
市民生活仍然捉襟见肘
2.And indeed , they are pretty inept on the ground
它们在地面上的生活能力的确有点捉襟见肘
3.Mr mccain , by contrast , is running on financial fumes
相比之下,麦凯恩的资金则捉襟见肘
4.Disk space burning a hole in your pocket
磁盘空间让您捉襟见肘
5.Poor fills due to poor liquidity can adversely affect your using this technique
由于缺乏流动资金导致的捉襟见肘会对不利于你使用这项技术。
6.But this arms race strained the government ' s principles as well as its budgets
但是这场军备竞赛使政府的原则无法自圆其说,也使其预算捉襟见肘
7.It wasn ' t because his mother didn ' t care , or try , there just never seemed to be enough
并不是他的母亲没在意,也不是她没去努力,但生活总是捉襟见肘
8.Martin was not yet rich enough to afford meat , and he was on slim allowance when the white mouse check arrived
马丁还吃不起肉,白鼠的支票到达时他一直在捉襟见肘
9.The bad : steep hardware requirements ; large battles can bring the most powerful systems to their knees
缺点:过高的系统要求,大规模的战斗能使最强大的主机都捉襟见肘
10.Broke after its haitian defeat , france sold a large region to the us for $ 15 million
法国在海地遭遇失败后,财力上捉襟见肘,将一大块地盘以一千五百万美元的代价卖给美国。
Similar Words:
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