0 a narrow piece of leather or other strong material used for fastening something or giving support -- 皮帶；帶子
1 to fasten something in position by fastening a narrow piece of leather or other strong material around it -- 用帶子繫（或捆、綁）
All members of local authorities know how strapped they are for money and how they find it enormously difficult to fulfil their existing obligations.
He believes that we must pull ourselves up by our boot straps.
Local authorities have been given the opportunity to purchase those areas, but now they are prevented from doing so because they are strapped for cash.
The calves are not strapped on the table.
Pupils are still being strapped and persecution is still going on.
There are people who suffer from disabilities and illnesses which prevent them from being able to strapped in.
In aircraft construction it is generally assumed that it is the airframe to which an engine is strapped and to which systems are later attached.
If it is properly adjusted, he can carry with ease a load which, when the straps are badly adjusted, will weigh him down.
