[ 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:
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Many people were still struggling to make ends meet 市民生活仍然捉襟见肘。
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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。
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Mr mccain , by contrast , is running on financial fumes 相比之下，麦凯恩的资金则捉襟见肘。
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Disk space burning a hole in your pocket 磁盘空间让您捉襟见肘？
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
