straiten meaning in Chinese
vt.
把…弄窄；〔古语〕限制，使收缩，收紧；〔主用 p.p. 〕折磨，使窘迫。 be straitened for 缺乏，苦于没有。
Examples
- In this confinement i began to be straitened for food .
在这种被困的情况下，我的粮食渐渐缺乏起来。 - Which you'll find a much more straitened way of life than what i'm offering you ?
你发现哪一种生活方式是比我提供给你更令人不好受的？ - I had lived a lonely childhood and a boyhood straitened by war and overshadowed by bereavement .
我度过了寂寞的童年，少年时代备受战争苦难，又由于丧母而变得黯淡无光。 - 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。 - I grow up in straitened but full of love circumstances
我是在物质条件贫乏但却充满爱心的环境下长大。