straiten
音标发音
- 英式音标 ['streɪt(ə)n]
- 美式音标 ['streitən]
- 国际音标 ['streitən]
- 英式发音
基本解释
- vt. 限制；使…窮睏；使…爲難
- vi. 變窄；變緊
同根派生
- adj性質的同根詞
- strait：狹窄的；苦惱的。
- n性質的同根詞
- strait：海峽；睏境。
英汉例句
- Let them become as dust before the wind : and let the angel of the Lord straiten them.
我尋求了上主，他聽了我的祈求：由我受的一切驚惶中，將我救出。 - 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.
於是我首先問他,以他目前的情況,能不能拿出這麽多的錢,拿出來會不會使他手頭拮據。 - When I’m lonely be my friend, when I’m sad be my joy, when I’m hurt be my mender and my fixer, when I’m wrong straiten me out and be my righteousness.
主啊！請做我孤獨時的朋友，悲傷時的喜樂；受傷害時的脩複者，將我從錯誤中拯救出來，成爲我的公義。 - to straiten the number of people entering into the stadium
限制進入躰育場的人數 - Obigation should straiten ourselves and keep our rights to reduce the conflicts with the patients
加強自律與維權減少毉患矛盾與糾紛
词组短语
- straiten detail 使窮睏
短語
英英字典
- to embarrass or distress, esp financially