Spending is predicted to fall by as much as 6% this year, as shoppers close purses and tighten belts.
今年，预计消费减少6%，原因是购物的人们都攥紧钱包，扎紧了腰带。
It would be unseemly for judges to receive pay increases when others are having to tighten their belts.
在其他人都得勒紧裤腰带过活的时候给法官们加薪是不合适的。
With the price increases, we are all having to tighten our belts.
由于物价上涨，我们都只好勒紧裤腰带了。
Apparently, though, he told a group of high school kids in New Hampshire, and I quote: 'When times are tough, you tighten your belts.
显然，他对新罕布什尔州的一组中学生这么说到：当时势不好的时候，你们得收紧裤带。
The answer to the first question is that when the stock market goes down, that tells everyone that times are bad, so consumers and businesses tighten their belts.
第一个问题的答案是，当证券市场出现下跌，这就告诉每一个人，现在是苦日子。因此消费者和企业就会勒紧裤腰带。
But many countries that need the fund’s money, from Hungary to Pakistan, do need to tighten their belts.
但是，那些需要资金的许多国家，如匈牙利，巴基斯坦等却要勒紧腰带，节约度日。
Retail sales have fallen for a third successive month this month as recession-hit consumers tighten their belts, the CBI reports today.
今天，英国工业联合会报告称，由于受衰退影响的消费者勒紧腰带过日子，本月的零售额已经连续第三个月下降。
This reflects the downturn in domestic demand as consumers tighten their belts and as unemployment rises (retail sales continue to fall sharply).
这反映出随着消费者勒紧裤腰子，失业率上升（零售价格持续急剧下降），内需开始下降。
He thinks Norwegians should use their oil wealth to tighten their belts in carbon terms, rather than bingeing.
他认为，挪威人应该好好利用他们自己的石油财富，来减少烟尘排放，而不是大度浪费。
"We are going to have to tighten our belts some in the coming months, frankly," says Morris.
莫里斯说：“说实话，我们今后几个月要勒紧裤腰带。”
Banks continue to tighten credit, and their own belts-citigroup has even restricted colour photocopying.
银行在不断的从紧信用以及自己的钱袋——花旗银行甚至限制使用彩色打印。
This month we have to tighten our belts.
这个月我不得不勒紧裤腰带过日子。
We all have to tighten our belts until your father finds another job.
在你父亲找到另一份工作之前，我们都要勒紧裤带。
We all have to tighten our belts until your father finds another job.
在你父亲找到另一份工作之前，我们都要勒紧裤带。
So for our people to be prepared, both physically and psychologically, to tighten their belts for a long time might be helpful.
因此，民众应当做好长期勒紧裤腰带的生理和心理上的准备，这可能是有用的解决方式。
We have got to tighten our belts.
我们的勒紧裤腰带了。
With a relatively long recession looking increasingly likely, many American families may be planning to tighten their belts.
基于对可能相对长期的经济衰退的预期，许多美国家庭正在计划缩减他们的支出。
In a period of mass unemployment a lot of people must learn to tighten their belts.
在大批人失业其间，很多人不得不束紧腰带，省吃俭用。
So an increase may make people tighten their belts a bit more and in that case the difficulty we could have is that shops will be affected and the greater economy affected also.
增值税增加应该会使人们勒紧腰带过日子，在这种情况下，商店营业额会受影响，经济形势也会受影响。
Because of unemployment many people had to tighten their belts.
由于失业，许多人不得不勒紧靠裤带生活。
With a broad consensus that a global economic recovery has begun, policymakers are debating how quickly to turn off stimulus spending and tighten their belts in order to control ballooning debt.
随着全球经济复苏已经开始成为广泛共识，政策制定者们在讨论如何迅速停止刺激性支出，并勒紧腰带以控制暴涨的债务。
When father lost his job we had to tighten our belts.
父亲失了业，我们不得不勒紧裤腰带过日子。
Howard: Not really. We've had to tighten our belts a bit, too.
霍华德：没有。我们也在勒紧裤带苦撑。
At some point they will have to tighten their belts and start paying down their debts, or Banks will have to write them off at a loss-with grim consequences for growth in either case.
到了一定程度，它们将不得不勒紧腰带，开始降低债务，而银行也将不得不把这些贷款作为损失加以减记——这两种情况都会对增长造成严重的影响。
A number of clubs have been hit by financial problems and, as most tighten their belts, much will depend on the spending habits of cash-rich Manchester City.
有相当一部分的俱乐部被经济问题所击倒，他们大都勒紧了他们的裤腰带，因此他们的转会计划主要依赖于比方说曼城这样的有钱的俱乐部的消费习惯。
Because of the high inflation rate, we all have to tighten our belts.
由于通胀高企，我们必须勒紧裤带。
If the economy gets worse, we shall just have to tighten our belts.
如果经济形势继续恶化，我们就不得不节衣缩食过紧日子了。
If the economy gets worse, we shall just have to tighten our belts.
如果经济形势继续恶化，我们就不得不节衣缩食过紧日子了。
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