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。
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。
Gordon Hewitt , a penny-pinching eccentric who used to read his paper in his car to save electricity , has left behind a 250,000 fortune after a lifetime of scrimping .
英国守财奴戈登休伊特在吝啬了一生之后,留下25万英镑的遗产。这位守财达人曾经为了省电而在车里读报。
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .