花燈集英語字典

scrimp and save

S 开头单词

基本解释

  • 節儉

英汉例句

    雙語例句

  • They had to scrimp and save to send their son to college.
    爲了送兒子上大學，他們不得不省喫儉用，拼命儹錢。
  • Buyers no longer had to scrimp and save to get what they wanted; they could have it now.
    買主無需爲得到他們想要的東西而節衣縮食儹錢，他們現在就可以擁有。
  • British libraries scrimp, save and appeal to lottery and charitable funds to buy collections, but cataloguing, the next stage, is also pricey, so some archives are inaccessible for years.
    英國圖書館節儉、節省、懇求一份抽獎式的獎金和慈善基金去購買作品集，但是下一堦段的分類也是十分昂貴的。 所以幾年來一些档案是沒有必要的。

    • 權威例句

  • The poor still queue for government-subsidised bread and must scrimp and save to buy a pair of shoes.
    ECONOMIST: The long wait
  • He would scrimp and save in order to spend nights with Sunset Strip hookers, often just cuddling and chatting.
    ECONOMIST: The man that mother made