scrimp

1 They scrimped and saved for lift tickets, and we kids usually had hand-me-down gear and mismatched mittens.

2 Down the hall, 56-year-old Janine Cox gets an occasional bag of chips from the vending machine and scrimps to add to the collection plate at church.

3 Knowing that we ate at school, Mrs. Moss scrimped even more at home, often serving only thin sandwiches for supper.

4 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。

5 The Beatles sing, “We shall scrimp and save” with utter reverence.

6 We have to scrimp and save if we want to buy a decent house in that area.

要想在那个地区买幢像样的房子，我们就必须省吃俭用。

7 The generation that lived through the Great Depression learned to scrimp and save.

经历过大萧条的一代学会了节俭和储蓄。

8 The second season revolved around intrigue and shifting allegiances tied to a potential mining windfall and didn’t scrimp on the baroque backwoods flourishes.

9 His grandmother, for example, “scrapped, scrimped, scrambled, scrunched, scrubbed, scratched, scuffled, slaved and saved until somehow all four of her children had graduated from college with honors.”

10 They scrimp on oil as much as they can during the energy crisis.

他们在能源危机时期尽量节省汽油。

11 It didn’t occur to me that other parents were scrimping and prioritizing, buying the kids Nikes and putting off paying the phone bill.

12 If we really scrimped and saved we could afford a 45 every month or so, and the books in our local library were based in, and had probably been around since, the 19th century.

13 They scrimped and saved to give the children a good education.

他们省吃俭用，为的是攒钱让孩子受到良好的教育。

14 This book was too important to scrimp on details.

15 Since becoming parents 10 years ago, my wife and I have not scrimped in our celebrations either.

16 Doctors have had to ration their dwindling supplies, scrimp on dosages and swap out prescriptions with inferior alternatives.

17 A city man by his appearance, scrimp and bald.

18 In effect, Justine and her little daughter, Reney, must grow up together, the two of them struggling and scrimping to get by.

19 Overestimate your longevity, and you could retire too late or scrimp too much.

20 Firms are quick to scale back capital spending and consumers skip new cars rather than scrimp on food or healthcare.

公司迅速缩减资本支出，而消费者会放弃购买新车而非在食物或医疗健康方面减少开支。

1 贪吝

sordid niggard scrimpy

2 少给

skimp

3 缺少的

poor wanting skimp skimpy unprovided lacking

4 吝啬

mean small near cheap tight careful narrow skinny miserable scotch shabby stingy skimpy grasping scanty nippy miserly screwy grudging illiberal parsimonious churlish penny-pinching chary ungenerous beggarly mingy tightfisted cheeseparing pinchpenny closefisted hardfisted ironfisted chinchy nearly meanly closeness parsimony hunks niggard pinch skimp squeeze the eagle close hungry sordid covetous penurious niggardly tight-fisted unhandsome costive close-fisted cheese-paring narrow-fisted little managing scant paltry scaly gripple skimpingly stingily charily pikerism nearness meanness smallness penury stinginess littleness miserliness illiberality chariness iron fisted

5 不足的

under short weak spare slim shy incomplete insufficient scarce slender deficient wanting skimp stingy skimpy scanty scraggy scrimpy lacking

6 缩减

scrimpy impansion contraction diminution diminish narrow trim squeeze trim down take in a reef curtailed cutdown drawdown retrenchment minish curtail retrench cut back on

7 吝啬鬼

muckworm scrapepenny save-all bog-pocket flayflint nipcheese screw stiff cheapskate curmudgeon Scrooge squeezer meanie skinflint tightwad churl pinchpenny pinchgut penny-pincher

8 不足

under short weak spare slim shy incomplete insufficient scarce slender deficient wanting skimp stingy skimpy scanty scraggy scrimpy poorly scantly olig- need want lack default failure fault absence poverty defect deficiency deficit shortage minus shortfall scarcity underage insufficiency defection paucity lacking fail come short be taken short in defect

9 节省

saving spare economical sparing sparely save stint economize retrench make spare frugal thrifty price-conscious economically economization economy husbandry husband temperate skimp save on scant near

10 削减

pared-down curtailed slash subtraction ax drawdown curtailment retrenchment cut clip trim dock curtail scant whittle pare abridge retrench trim down prune away prune off take from pare down

11 克扣

scant skimp

12 吝啬的

mean small near cheap tight careful narrow skinny miserable scotch shabby stingy skimpy grasping scanty nippy miserly screwy grudging illiberal parsimonious churlish penny-pinching chary ungenerous beggarly mingy tightfisted cheeseparing pinchpenny closefisted hardfisted ironfisted chinchy

13 俭约

provident providence husbandry scrape

14 精打细算

careful calculation

15 节约

saving economical frugal provident economically sparely economy stint thrift providence retrenchment spareness retrench save husband economize

16 吝惜

grudge

17 节用

nurse conserve

18 缺少

poor wanting skimp skimpy unprovided want deficiency shortage shortfall scarcity shortness insufficiency dearth wantage lacking minus run short short on

19 缩减的

scrimpy

20 节俭

thrift spare scrape economize careful economical frugal thrifty provident sparing economically sparingly prudently frugally abstemiously frugality thriftiness managing canny austerity providence skimp

21 俭省

saving thrifty scanty spare pinch skimp