Even if you're on a tight budget, set a bit of money aside for each of you personally.
即使目前你们的经济拮据，也要为彼此保留一些个人的财产空间。As a single mother with a young daughter, Jessica, it was hard for her to find the time and the energy to write.
她一个单身母亲，带着幼女杰西卡，很难有时间和精力写作，失业更是让本已拮据的生活雪上加霜。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。Just as you cannot BE sure why you struggle financially while your peers enjoy abundance.
同样，你也无法明白为什么你生活拮据、疲于谋生，而你的朋友却生活优裕。If income is often a dilemma, buy a vintage gown and try fixing it up yourself.
如果收入经常拮据，买件旧式礼服，然后改改合身即可。I've often helped Bob out when he's been a bit short of money.
鲍勃手头拮据时我常帮他忙。With his mother bringing up seven boys on her own after his parents split up, money was tight and life was tough.
怙恃仳离后他母亲独自把七个孩子带年夜，那时的生活很是拮据。I could not avoid communicating to her something of what lay hardest upon my mind and particularly the narrowness of my circumstance.
我免不了告诉她一些压在我心头上的最沉重的事情，尤其是我财力拮据的情况。Abolishing job protection makes most workers worse off, so it tends to run into political obstacles.
废除职业保护使多数工人经济拮据，因而会遇到政治上的障碍。