tight budget

I always have a tight budget at each end of the semesters.

每到学期快结束的时候,我总是预算很紧张.

We are wrestling very tight budget.

我们的预算很紧张.

We decorated the house on a tight budget.

我们节省地装修了房子.

I need to live on a tight budget from now on.

现在起只得勒紧裤带过活了.

Because we are so busy and on such a tight budget, we don't entertain much.

由于我们如此忙碌,手头又紧, 我们很少请客.

Owing to a tight budget several professors are non-renewed.

因为经费拮据,好几名教授未得续聘.

She has to work within the limits of a fairly tight budget.

她不得不在相当紧张的预算范围内精打细算。

Someone had furnished the place on a tight budget.

有人没花多少钱简单地把这个地方布置了一下。