金融危机席卷全球，越来越多的公司企业感到经济拮据，有些甚至已经开始通过裁员和精简部门设置来改善当前的经济状况。在这样的大环境下，作为小职员的我们自然也是银包缩水，With the spread of global financial crisis, people in our country also feel the pinch.

Feel the pinch这个短语一般都用来形容财政困难，手头拮据等状况，作此解释也是源于pinch这个词有“困境、困苦”等意思。

If someone is short of money or feeling restricted in some other way, they are feeling the pinch.

再看一个例子：

Shopkeepers are beginning to feel the pinch because no one has a lot of money to spend these days.

店主们开始感到处境困难了，因为近来大家都没什么钱买东西。