in straitened circumstances

基本解释

Past: In 1975, Hengdian Group took its first step by establishing Hengdian Silk Factory in straitened circumstances.
昨日： 1975年，橫店絲廠在艱難中創立，邁出蹣跚的第一步；
In addition, he noted that he did not mean to assert the rich's interest. On the contrary, his purpose is to show his concerns about the families living in straitened circumstances.
此外，他還解釋自己的觀點絕不是在“爲富人說話”，恰恰相反是出於對社會上最睏難人群的關心。
While the anination industry surely is booming, cartoonists across the globe are complaining about the stress they've felt in making a living, and their increasingly straitened circumstances.
動漫産業迅猛發展是不爭的事實，但全球的漫畫家都在抱怨生存的壓力和生活的窘迫，而且似乎有越來越窘迫的趨勢。

Shorn of empire and in straitened circumstances, Russia still tends to view the world through balance-of-power lenses: another country's gain is Russia's loss, and vice versa, especially when that other country is America.
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In his straitened political circumstances, such trimming of reformist ambition may be the most sensible strategy for the president.
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