拮据时期

lead times───订货至交货的时间（leadtime的名词复数）

mean times───n.[统计]平均时间（平均太阳时）

dead times───停滞时间；窝工时间

lead time───n.提前期；订货至交货的时间；研制周期；交付周期

meal times───用餐时间

mean time───n.[统计]平均时间（平均太阳时）

peak times───（收听广播、收看电视的）[交]高峰时间

Thee lean times should, however, end soon.───依赖阶段依赖阶段应尽快结束。

have joined Avon since the beginning of last year, attracted by its message of job security in these lean times.───从去年年初开始，已经又一百万人被雅芳的就业保证所吸引，加入了雅芳。

You'll likely face lean times for a while, but there's a good chance of making a bundle down the road.───你可能会需要一段手头很紧的时间，但是顺路搂草打兔子的机会也不少。

Unofficially, it's clear that Oracle is looking to its most high-end products to raise the bottom line during lean times.───但据非官方的猜测，Oracle希望在经济萧条时期提高其最高端产品的价格底线。

So when the economy turns healthy again, living more like we're still in lean times might make us all a bit healthier as well.───所以当经济再次转好的时候，要尽量像在经济不好的时候一样生活。这样可能会使我们过得更加健康。

Maybe these lean times could be the beginning of a new, healthier you.───也许，这些艰苦的时光正是你健康生活的全新开始。

Sock away some money. It will help you survive lean times if you decide to start at the bottom in a new field that will make you happier.───存一点钱。如果你决定在让你更加开心的新领域从头开始做起，你的积蓄会帮你度过经济窘迫的时期。

In lean times, governments try to gain an advantage through gaming the system of global currency.───在此困难时期，各国政府试图利用全球货币系统为本国争取利益。

Yet whether lean times or creative instinct drive customers to second-hand shops, they remain a valuable option.

Too often in lean times the poorest are asked to make the largest sacrifices.

In recent years, the cinema has fallen on lean times.

These are lean times for the poor small farmers who work marginal lands in the coastal districts.

Contrary to legend, the golden boy did have some lean times.