He is straitened for want of money.

他因缺钱而受窘。

He was a writer living in straitened circumstances.

他是一个生活拮据的作家。

Let them become as dust before the wind : and let the angel of the Lord straiten them.

我寻求了上主，他听了我的祈求：由我受的一切，将我救出。