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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The Japanese, scrimping on sleep and burdened with long commutes and working hours, still manage to spend close to two hours a day eating and drinking, placing them third behind New Zealanders.
  尽管日本人睡眠时间少、通勤和工作时间长，但他们每天仍会在吃喝上花上近两个小时，因此日本在该项排名第三位，仅次于新西兰。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The scrimping life of the peasants.
  农民们节衣缩食的生活。
• He did not suggest getting rid of football stadiums ( which usually pay for themselves) or scrimping on bed-and-board.
  他并没有建议去掉足球场（足球场可以自给自足）或者节省膳宿费用。
• 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。