英语词汇“belt-tightening”的音标、意思、用法及中文翻译-反思网

tighten your belt
belt-tightening
adjective[ before noun ]
(alsobelt tightening)ukus
involving a reduction in spending:
The government has recommended a series of belt-tightening reforms.
Over the past twenty years, Germany and Italy have taken belt-tightening measures that have helped improve their economies.

Examples of belt-tightening

belt-tightening
While inflation points to increasing pension changes based on economic downturns, the strong influence of the unemployment rate highlights the necessity of budgetary belt-tightening.
Across the board it is a picture of continual belt-tightening and of a very difficult time for research scientists.
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Thus, it requires at this time on this issue a practical demonstration of belt-tightening.
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The private sector continues to suffer from belt-tightening and that trend looks set to continue.
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It rightly regards these not as belt-tightening, which may be justifiable, but as potentially damaging to its present fabric and its future success.
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It follows that in any belt-tightening exercise, larger farms must suffer disproportionately, and the proposals mirror that.
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We may all have to take some individual belt-tightening.
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No matter how good the present housekeeping and belt-tightening in the defence field may be, they will not satisfy the critics.
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In times of general belt-tightening, it looks very bad if politicians authorise further privileges for their own organisations.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
We constantly hear about the result of sacrifices, of belt-tightening and of pulling up our socks.
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I should like to meet a fisherman who has any belt-tightening left to do.
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Expenditure on the assisted places scheme is set to rise inexorably, to provide for increased take-up, revised forecasts of parental contributions and fee increases at participating schools—no belt-tightening there.
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After years of belt-tightening, the hospital's future finally looked brighter.
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During her time as minister she undertook a wide range of belt-tightening measures.
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Several more rounds of belt-tightening followed.
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词汇	belt-tightening
释义	belt-tightening noun[ U ] FINANCE (alsobelt tightening)ukus a reduction in spending by consumers, businesses, governments, etc., usually because they have financial problems: Many independent shops are failing to make a profit during this period of consumer belt-tightening. The car manufacturer announced plans for belt-tightening that would result in 30% of workers losing their jobs. Compare tighten your belt belt-tightening adjective[ before noun ] (alsobelt tightening)ukus involving a reduction in spending: The government has recommended a series of belt-tightening reforms. Over the past twenty years, Germany and Italy have taken belt-tightening measures that have helped improve their economies. Examples of belt-tightening belt-tightening While inflation points to increasing pension changes based on economic downturns, the strong influence of the unemployment rate highlights the necessity of budgetary belt-tightening. Across the board it is a picture of continual belt-tightening and of a very difficult time for research scientists. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Thus, it requires at this time on this issue a practical demonstration of belt-tightening. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The private sector continues to suffer from belt-tightening and that trend looks set to continue. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It rightly regards these not as belt-tightening, which may be justifiable, but as potentially damaging to its present fabric and its future success. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It follows that in any belt-tightening exercise, larger farms must suffer disproportionately, and the proposals mirror that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We may all have to take some individual belt-tightening. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No matter how good the present housekeeping and belt-tightening in the defence field may be, they will not satisfy the critics. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In times of general belt-tightening, it looks very bad if politicians authorise further privileges for their own organisations. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We constantly hear about the result of sacrifices, of belt-tightening and of pulling up our socks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I should like to meet a fisherman who has any belt-tightening left to do. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Expenditure on the assisted places scheme is set to rise inexorably, to provide for increased take-up, revised forecasts of parental contributions and fee increases at participating schools—no belt-tightening there. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 After years of belt-tightening, the hospital's future finally looked brighter. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. During her time as minister she undertook a wide range of belt-tightening measures. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Several more rounds of belt-tightening followed. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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