straiten

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

這個字我們還沒有寫成教學內容。以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,方便你先看懂它的意思。

straitenverb

  • 1

    To make strait; to narrow or confine to a smaller space.

    • The channel straitened the river through the town, made it flow faster, and caused more flooding upstream.
  • 2

    To restrict or diminish, especially financially.

    • And the reason why Birds are Oviparous and lay Eggs, but do not bring forth their yong alive, is, because there might be more plenty of them also, and that neither the Birds of prey, the Serpent nor the Fowler, should streighten their generations too much.
    • Rising costs put those on fixed incomes in straitened circumstances.

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資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。