词汇释义
cramped TEM8TOFEL GRE
UK /kræmpt/ US /kræmpt/
adj, A cramped room or building is not big enough for the people or things in it.狭窄的，狭小的
外刊例句
1. On the evening of 31 August 1854, families living in a cluster of cramped, overcrowded houses in Soho, London, were struck by a horrific calamity.(The Guardian - Opinion)
2. As a teenager and medical student in the 1940s and 50s, he would work there, an escape from the confined, cramped home he grew up in.(The Guardian)
3. The best seats, meanwhile, were free: the cramped balconies of the flats that tower over the east end – the east end which is just a wall.(The Guardian - Sport)
4. The new act identifies this as a designated area for street vendors, and allocates space for them to carry out their business in a peaceful and less cramped manner.(The Guardian)
5. That it took two years for the first Observer Magazine to appear says much about the debate that went on in the paper's cramped and tatty offices in Tudor Street, just off Fleet Street.(The Guardian)
6. Sam Cam smiled disloyally; Downing Street has always been a little too cramped for her.(The Guardian)
7. This follows evidence collected by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), which represents workers' rights around the world, that migrant workers were being paid lower-than-expected wages, having their passports confiscated, trafficked for forced labour and living in cramped conditions.(The Guardian)
8. In one run-down camp, living in a cramped room housing eight people, where clothes were hanged to the walls and valued possessions were stuffed under tiny bunk beds, was Hassan, a new arrival from Ghana.(The Guardian)
9. "The two detainees that each had a broken foot were also subjected to walling, stress positions and cramped confinement, despite the note in their interrogation plans that these specific enhanced interrogation techniques were not requested because of the medical condition of the detainees," the report says.(The Guardian)
10. How many teachers would remain magnificent faced with 40 children in cramped conditions?(The Guardian)
11. Finally, pen dangling from his cramped and rheumatic fingers, Bech realises, with a sigh of satisfaction, that he has finally reached the logical end point of the blocked writer.(The Guardian - Sport）
12. He is the secretary of Clowns International, the accreditation body of clowning, and the co-curator of the Clown Museum, a cramped one-room trove of all things red-nose that was once the vestry of a church in Hackney.(The Guardian)
13. The Carbuncle Cup-winning hulk on Pentonville Road houses cramped cell-like rooms that look directly out on to the blank brick wall of a retained Victorian facade, only one metre away.(The Guardian - Arts)
14. Sailing your own vessel gives you an enormous amount of freedom but there are also limitations - the accommodation can be cramped and you are not always in control of your own destiny.(The Guardian - Travel)
15. The middlemen the airlines wanted to do away with remain comfortably entrenched.In recent years the main hope for restoring airline profitability has been ancillaries: all those extra charges for meals, checked bags, less-cramped seats and the like.(The Economist)
词汇搭配
cramped apartment, attic, confines, flat, muscle, office, premises, quarter, room, tenement
词汇来源
"to contract, afflict with spasms" (of muscles), early 15c., from cramp (n.1). Related: Cramped; cramping.
近义词
restricted, confined, constricted, small, tiny, narrow, compact, tight, uncomfortable, minimal, sparse, inadequate, crowded, jammed, congested, incommodious
反义词
spacious
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