橘子朗文词典

skimp

S 开头单词GRE词汇

音标发音

  • 英式音标 [skɪmp]
  • 美式音标 [skɪmp]
  • 国际音标 [skimp]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • vt. 尅釦；對…不夠用心；捨不得給；少給
  • vi. 節省；不夠用心
  • adj. 少的；不足的

同根派生

  • adj性質的同根詞
    skimpy：不足的；吝嗇的。

英汉例句

  • Older people should not skimp on food or heating.
    老人喫飯和取煖不應吝惜。
  • She had to skimp to send her son to college.
    她必須節儉來供她兒子上大學.
  • Older people shouldn't skimp on food or heating.
    老年人不應過分吝惜食物或取煖方麪的開銷.
  • Older people should not skimp on food or heating.
    老人喫飯和取煖不應吝惜。
  • Many families must skimp on their food and other necessities just to meet the monthly rent.
    就爲了交齊每月的租金，許多家庭不得不省喫儉用。

词组短语

    短語

  • to skimp 儉用
  • skimp on 馬馬虎虎地做;節儉使用;節省;草率地做
  • skimp p 吝嗇;縮支節用;節省
  • You skimp on sleep 缺少睡眠
  • skimp on sth 對

英英字典

    劍橋英英字典

  • to not spend enough time or money on something, or to not use enough of something in order to do a job or activity as it should be done

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • If you skimp on something, you use less time, money, or material for it than you really need, so that the result is not good enough.