hard up

Being hard up, she and Yuan Zhen were immensely pleased to see me, guessing I must have brought some money with me to share with them.

她和元真正穷得没法过日子，见我去时很高兴，猜想我一定拿到了钱，连忙向我瓜分。

He was always hard up, but being a man of enterprise knew all the best people, as well as all the worst, so that he dined out every night.

他手头总是很紧，但是由于他敢作敢为，他认识一切最好的和最坏的人物，所以他天天在外面吃晚饭。

Forget it! Don't strain at a gnat. As you know, he is hard up these days.

算了吧！不要斤斤计较。如你所知，他最近手头紧。

He's very understanding: if I'm hard up by the middle of the week he'll always let me have a few groceries on tick till Friday.

他很会体谅人：要是我们到星期二左右手头紧了起来，他就赊给我一些食品杂货，直到星期五再付款。

He was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Instead, my friend was always hard up for cash.

他不是生来富贵人家英寸相反，我的朋友总是缺钱现金。

I am in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, and heading for a remote bit of Nuerland, hard up against the bandit border with Ethiopia.

我从苏丹南部的首府朱巴向纽尔兰进发，一个与埃塞俄比亚剑拔弩张的边塞小镇。

Instead, my friend was always hard up for cash. He did not have much moneyandAnd the money he did earn was chicken feed- very little.

他的家境并不富有，也不是含着金汤匙出生的，反而经常缺钱，自己赚的也很少，少的可怜。

The famous mathematician, Mr. Hua has made a "hard-up and hence is a good training and a hard one before. "

著名的数学家华罗庚先生有一句话“勤奋补拙是良训，一分辛苦一分才。”

The two cross-talk actors must be hard up for ideas, since there were only old punch-lines in their show.

那两个相声演员恐怕已经黔驴技穷了，表演中只有些老包袱。

What he did let slip was that were quite hard up.

他无意中说出的一个情况是他们经济上还相当紧张。

He is always hard up because he doesn't lay out his money wisely.

他总是没钱，因为他用钱不会精打细算。

"This is diplomatic property, " said one of the guards in good English, as he thrust me hard up against a jeep.

其中一个警卫一边把我推搡到一辆吉普车前，一边用纯正的英语说道：“这里是外交领地。”

Eg. He was very hard up for money when he was out of job.

他失业的时候很穷。

As the white -collar are yelling for being hard up, we blue-collar had better go begging. It's soon when I am going to be a beggar.

白领们都在叫着薪水不够，我们蓝领真该去要饭了。现在看快了，离要饭仅一步之遥。

He was just as hard up as any of us.

他和我们中的任何人都一样手头拮据。

Culms hard, up to 2 m long, farinose below nodes, nodes densely bearded in tuft at sheath margin or all round.

2米长的秆硬，可达，在下面节，节浓密具髯毛成丛到处在鞘边缘或时候。

Eg. The company is hard up for new ideas.

这家公司缺乏新的构想。

After losing the state funding given to opposition parties, the Lib Dems are hard-up, and leaving their stately Westminster HQ.

在失去了支付给反对党的国家资金后，拮据的自由民主党离开了宏伟的威斯敏斯特总部。

I should (would) never have done it if I hadn't been so hard up.

如果手头不是那样拮据，我是不会那样做的。

Although adamant that he is not cashing in on Diana's death, Rees -Jones is submitting to a media hoopla because he is hard up.

虽然里斯。琼斯坚称他并非利用戴安娜之死来挣钱，实际他确实是由于生活日益拮掘而屈服于媒体的纠缠。