scrimping

英 [ˈskrɪmpɪŋ]

美 [ˈskrɪmpɪŋ]

v.  省吃俭用，节衣缩食(尤指为了攒钱)
scrimp的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• VERB 节省;精打细算;省吃俭用
  If youscrimp onthings, you live cheaply and spend as little money as possible.
  1. Scrimping on safety measures can be a false economy...
     在安全措施上抠手抠脚可能会打错算盘。
  2. He has had to give up luxuries as he scrimps and saves while looking for a job.
     找工作期间，他只好放弃奢侈的生活，精打细算、省吃俭用。

双语例句

• He says it is a way of scrimping on compensation payouts.
  他说这是为了压缩政府补助的方法。
• Scrimping on safety measures can be a false economy
  在安全措施上抠手抠脚可能会打错算盘。
• If austerity can be defined as self-denial and abstention from worldly pleasures, what a joyless bunch we have been, with all that cutting and scrimping.
  如果紧缩可被定义为自我克制及放弃世俗享乐，那么这些缩减及节省已使我们变成非常无趣的一群人。
• In the meantime I am so busy scrimping and saving, that I can't afford to go out with friends, I can't afford to live in a nice home, and I am miserable because I am not living in France.
  同时由于我过度节俭、吝啬，以至我不能花钱与我的朋友一起外出消费，我住不起豪华漂亮的房子，我也很不幸，因为我最终没有在法国定居。
• A discussion on the controlled scrimping strategy in American new product R& D
  论美国产品研发中的有控节余策略
• I've been scrimping and saving all year for our holiday, and now you've wasted it all on that stupid old car!
  我一整年都在为这次度假而省吃俭用，但现在你却把钱全浪费在这老爷车上。
• I was still broke, still scrimping and saving to buy necessities.
  我仍然一贫如洗，仍然精打细算省下钱来购买生活必需品。
• Debt is such a burden that it's worth scrimping for a few years, and even delaying graduate school, to pay off at least some of the debt.
  债务是一笔负担，为了偿还一部分债务，节衣缩食几年是值得的，甚至是延迟毕业时间。
• People and companies that avoid tax are therefore unpopular at the best of times, so it is not surprising that when governments and individuals everywhere are scrimping to pay their bills, attacks are mounting on tax havens and those that use them.
  所以，即使在情况好的时候，逃避纳税的个人和企业都不得人心，于是，在各地的政府和个人都拮据度日时，针对避税港以及其利用者的指责日益增多，这一点也不奇怪。
• The scrimping life of the peasants.
  农民们节衣缩食的生活。