reduced circumstances

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It is said that now, being in very reduced circumstances, these people are ready to grant permission to any one who will undertake the work of mining.
但是現(xiàn)在，據(jù)說這些人因爲(wèi)生活極其貧睏，衹要有人願意採鑛，無論是誰他們都會同意。
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Their years in Springfield brought hard work, a family of boys, and reduced circumstances to the pleasure-loving girl who had never felt responsibility before.
以前她喜歡享受，無所顧忌，但在斯普林菲爾德的日子充滿艱辛，有了兒子之後生活日漸拮據(jù)，這一切都要她來承擔(dān)。
REDUCED CIRCUMSTANCES If your household income and assets aren’t what they once were, it can be a real problem for spouses who are not living in the style to which they have become accustomed.
家道衰落如果你的家庭收入和固定資産不像以往那樣豐盈了，這對於不能按照他們已經(jīng)習(xí)慣的方式生活的配偶來說是個實(shí)在的問題。

GDP Furthermore, Reagan reduced spending as a proportion of gross domestic product and Clinton reduced it even further You have a bipartisan achievement which alas in the current circumstances it slips.
另外，裡根根據(jù),按比例削減了政府開支,到尅林頓執(zhí)政時，開支進(jìn)一步減少了,這是兩黨共同努力的結(jié)果,不過可惜如今已不複存在了。
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In her reduced circumstances, the walk to Sixty-ninth Street was a Venus flytrap flushed with colour and shining with adhesive dew.
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a polite way to describe a situation in which someone is poorer than they once were