省吃儉用的英文:
[Literal Meaning]
economize/eat/save/use
to save on food and expense

[解釋]
形容生活非常節(jié)儉。

[Explanation]
to be thrifty

[例子]
老夫妻一生省吃儉用,把攢下的十萬元錢都捐獻(xiàn)給了希望工程。

[Example]
The old couple pinched and scraped all their lives and donated 100,000 yuan that they saved to the Hope Project.

[英文等價(jià)詞]
pinch and save/scrape/screw

參考例句:
  • Tighten one's belt (eat less food,spend less money,etc)
    勒緊腰帶(省吃儉用)
  • We had to scrimp and save to pay the bills.
    我們得省吃儉用來付帳.
  • She's always been pinching and scraping without ever wasting a single cent
    她一向省吃儉用,從未浪費(fèi)過一分錢
  • By saving on food and clothes, they managed to send him to school.
    他們省吃儉用把他送進(jìn)學(xué)校念書。
  • They had to scrimp and save to send their son to college.
    為了送兒子上大學(xué),他們不得不省吃儉用,拼命錢。
  • Her parents pinched and scraped so that she could study singing abroad.
    她父母省吃儉用好讓她出國學(xué)習(xí)聲樂.
  • In a period of mass unemployment a lot of people must learn to tighten their belts.
    "在大批人失業(yè)其間,很多人不得不束緊腰帶,省吃儉用。"
  • They had to skimp (on everything) to send their sons to college.
    他們不得不省吃儉用以便送兒子進(jìn)大學(xué)。
  • He has fared hard and worked hard to make good everybody's loss.
    他一向省吃儉用、辛辛苦苦,盡量讓別人少受一些損失。
  • Why don’t you retrench then—scrape up, hoard, economise?
    那么你為什么不節(jié)約一下——積累一點(diǎn),儲(chǔ)蓄一點(diǎn),省吃儉用一些呢?

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