scrimp
scrimp 英 [skrɪmp] 美 [skrɪmp]
vt. 节省；过度缩减；克扣 vi. 精打细算；吝啬 adj. 吝啬的；不足的
进行时:scrimping 过去式:scrimped 过去分词:scrimped 第三人称单数:scrimps 名词复数:scrimps
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- vt. 节省；过度缩减；克扣
- vi. 精打细算；吝啬
- adj. 吝啬的；不足的
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1. So don't scrimp on smooching your girl different ways to ramp up the sensitive factor.
因此不要吝啬亲吻你的女朋友，尝试用不同的方式来调动敏感的器官。
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2. Despite bitter complaints about soaring prices, workers say they can scrimp enough to save at least a chunk of their wages.
尽管飞涨的物价让打工者叫苦不迭，但他们说如果精打细算一些，还是可以存下部分工资的。
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3. And yet the more they scrimp on investment, the more joblessness, especially among the young, will deepen Japan’s sense of malaise.
但是他们越是在投资上节省资金，失业也就会更多，特别是在年轻人之中，这将会是日本萎靡不振的意识进一步恶化。
- scrimp (v.) "to make too small," 1774, originally in English an adjective, "scant, meager" (1718), possibly from a Scandinavian source (compare Swedish skrumpna "to shrink, shrivel up," Danish skrumpen "shrunken, shriveled"), or from a continental Germanic source akin to Middle High German schrimpfen, German schrumpfen "to shrivel," from Proto-Germanic *skrimp-, from PIE root *(s)kerb- "to turn, bend." Related: Scrimped; scrimping.
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