scrimp

scrimp什么意思,scrimp翻译

基本解释

v.: 省吃俭用
网络: 过度缩减；节省；精打细算

权威解释

• 省吃俭用，节衣缩食（尤指为了攒钱）:

  to spend very little money on the things that you need to live, especially so that you can save it to spend on sth else

英汉解释

• 删减

• 少给;克扣

• 吝啬

• 节省;俭省

• 过分缩减

词性分析

• 第三人称单数：scrimps

• 现在分词：scrimping

• 过去式：scrimped

同义词

v.pull in your hornseconomizesaveskimptighten your belt

反义词

v.squander

例句

• And yet the more they scrimp on investment, the more joblessness, especially among the young, will deepen Japan"s sense of malaise.

  然而他们投资的越少，由此产生的越多的失业就会让让日本人的不适感越强烈，尤其是年轻人。

• Don"t try to scrimp here - have the boat pulled out even if it costs you.

  可别在这里省钱——即使需要另加费用，也要把船提出水面。

• Time for yourself is often where most people tend to scrimp.

  通常大多数人留给自己的时间很少。

• Despite bitter complaints about soaring prices, workers say they can scrimp enough to save at least a chunk of their wages.

  尽管飞涨的物价让打工者叫苦不迭，但他们说如果精打细算一些，还是可以存下部分工资的。

• Hey I can"t unload these goods by myself! Stop trying to scrimp on labor costs and hire some people.

  嘿！我没法自己一个人卸下这些货物！别再费尽心机压榨我们的血汗了，求老爷再雇些人来做工吧！

• John was making more money, but I continued to scrimp and save.

  约翰挣钱比以前多了，可是我继续节省开支攒钱。

• And if the company makes up the deficit, as many do, what incentive is there to scrimp, he asks?

  而如果公司构成赤字，那么有什么动机去节省呢？他像许多人那样问。

• The poor still queue for government-subsidised bread and must scrimp and save to buy a pair of shoes.

  穷人仍要排队领取政府补贴的面包，要省吃俭用才能买一双鞋。

• Parents have a better idea of what their budgets are at this point, so parents will scrimp elsewhere, not on kids.

  父母都清楚他们的预算在这一点上有更好的主意，让家长节衣缩食其它地方，孩子们没有。

• Only a small proportion (11% of younger households) have a mortgage, and those that do scrimp and save to try to pay it off in five years.

  只有很小一部分人（11%的较年轻家庭）有抵押贷款，并且这些人精打细算地存钱为了能在5年内还清贷款。