手头拮据 meaning in Chinese
be hard up for money; be hard pressed [pushed] for money; be in low water; be low in pocket; be out of pocket; feel the draught; go [run] on the rocks; in hard need of money; short of funds
Examples
- Whenever i 'm hard up for money , he will empty his purse to help me .
每当我手头拮据的时候，他总是倾囊相助。 - He was both out of pocket and out of spirits by that catastrophe .
经过这次灾难，他手头拮据，总是无精打采的。 - 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。 - He was generous, and the needy, laughing at him because he believed so naively their stories of distress, borrowed from him with effrontery .
他很大方，那些手头拮据的人一方面嘲笑他那么天真地轻信他编造的不幸故事，一方面厚颜无耻地伸手向他借钱。 - He didn ' t want you to go short . as he said to me
他可不希望你们手头拮据他还对我说