詞語：scrimping
scrimping的解釋
scrimping[skrimp]vt. 節省；過度縮減；剋扣vi. 精打細算；吝嗇adj. 吝嗇的；不足的
scrimping的參考例句
1.If you are determined to study on some topics, you will buy yourselves books by scrimping food and clothing as well as manage to acquire laboratory apparatus. 你有了決心要研究一個問題，自然會節衣節食去買書，自然會想出法子來設置儀器。
2.While the Zhous are fairly well-off by village standards, they had been scrimping for years, growing their own vegetables and eating mainly rice and noodles, with little meat. 儘管周家的家境按照農村的水平還算不錯，但是他們多年來也過著節衣縮食的生活：自己種菜，主要吃大米和麵條，很少吃肉。
3.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. 儘管日本人睡眠時間少、上下班往返途中和工作時間長，但他們每天仍會在吃喝上花上近兩個小時，因此日本在該項排名第三位，僅次於新西蘭。