| 词汇 | be stretched (to the limit) |
| 释义 | be stretched (to the limit)be stretched (to the limit) ENOUGH#to have hardly enough money, supplies, time etc for your needs 手头拮据；供应紧张；时间不足 We’re stretched at the moment, otherwise we’d go. 我们目前手头紧，否则会去的。 Examples from the Corpus be stretched (to the limit)• Curtains of closely woven cotton lace were stretched across the windows, fastened so tightly they kept out both air and sun.• In the process, however, nerves and resources were stretched almost to the breaking point.• But now with several hundred thousand more people, municipal services are stretched beyond belief.• I was stretched full-length upon the bodies, my battered hand resting on the rim of the tub.• A woman was stretched lazily along it.• Cantor was stretched out on his bed, content and tired, the telephone cradled at his neck.• In the first phrase, for example, the normal eight bars are stretched to nine.• Olympic ideals were stretched to the limit. → be stretched (to the limit) at stretch1(5) |
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