| 单词 | straitened circumstances |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstraitened circumstances 5. esp. Condition or state as to material welfare, means. Now always plural. in easy circumstances, good circumstances, reduced circumstances, straitened circumstances, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > a person's collective property or substance thingOE chattela1240 cattlec1275 i-wonc1275 moneya1325 tilea1325 statec1330 thrifta1350 substancea1382 chevance1477 graith?a1513 estate1563 wortha1586 thrive1592 fortune1596 store1600 boodle1699 circumstancea1704 the mind > possession > wealth > rich or wealthy [phrase] > well off well at easec1330 of substance?a1439 at rack and (at) mangera1500 in good case1560 well to live1568 well and warmc1571 well to pass in the worlda1609 inlaid1699 in easy circumstancesa1704 well to do in the world1805 stouth and routh1816 quids in1919 the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > circumstance or circumstances > [noun] > circumstances of a person or in life farcostc1275 chesounc1380 condition1607 circumstancea1704 situation1728 a1704 T. Brown Declam. Praise Wealth in Wks. (1707) I. i. 123 Despicable in Circumstance. 1716 J. Addison Freeholder No. 42 When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. 1816 W. Godwin Caleb Williams (ed. 4) III. xiii. 243 As..circumstances were narrow. 1844 Ld. Brougham Albert Lunel I. iii. 51 Born of noble family..reduced in its circumstances. 1872 E. Peacock Mabel Heron I. i. 7 I am afraid he is in very bad circumstances still. 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar v. 41 A country gentleman in good circumstances. straitened circumstances d. straitened circumstances: inadequate means of living, poverty. Also straitened income, straitened means. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] waedlec888 wanspeedc893 wanea1100 wandrethc1175 miseasea1200 povertya1225 lowness?c1225 needc1225 orcostc1225 poorness?a1300 unwealtha1300 defaultc1300 porailc1325 straitnessa1340 poorhead1340 mischiefa1375 miseasetya1382 needinessa1382 misterc1385 indigencec1386 scarcitya1387 noughtc1400 scantnessc1400 necessity?1406 penurya1425 povertnessa1434 exilitya1439 wantc1450 scarcenessc1475 needinga1500 povertiesa1500 penurity?a1505 poortith?a1513 debility1525 tenuity1535 leanness1550 lack1555 Needham1577 inopy1581 pinching1587 dispurveyance1590 egency1600 macritude1623 penuriousness1630 indigency1631 needihood1648 necessitousness1650 egestuosity1656 straitened circumstancesa1766 unopulence1796 Queer Street1811 lowliness1834 breadlessness1860 unwealthiness1886 out-of-elbowness1890 secondary poverty1901 Short Street1920 a1766 F. Sheridan Concl. Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph (1767) IV. 4 They believed she was in streightened circumstances. 1813 Sketches of Character (ed. 2) I. 21 There remained but a straightened income for the widow. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby x. 90 To remind her of her straitened and altered circumstances. 1877 M. Oliphant Young Musgrave I. 7 So far as his straitened means and limited stables permitted. < as lemmas |
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