许多家庭都在勒紧裤带，华盛顿也应该如此。
Families are tightening their belts and so should Washington.
消费者中也已经出现勒紧裤带过日子的迹象。
这个月我不得不勒紧裤带过日子！
由于通胀高企，我们必须勒紧裤带。
Because of the high inflation rate, we all have to tighten our belts.
霍华德：没有。我们也在勒紧裤带苦撑。
Howard: Not really. We've had to tighten our belts a bit, too.
没有食物时，我们必须勒紧裤带过日子。
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.
超过半数的受访者反映他们将会在买衣服和吃饭时勒紧裤带。
More than 50% of respondents said they would be tightening their belts when it came to buying new clothes and eating out.
而抬高房价可能会让业主们勒紧裤带，减少消费。
Flatter prices may encourage homeowners to rein in their spending.
如果食品不足，抱怨也无用，我们将只得勒紧裤带。
If food is scarce it's no use complaining; we shall just have to pull in our belts.
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.
为了更多的收归国有、物资缺乏和经济衰退，委内瑞拉人民必须更勒紧裤带、咬紧牙关。
Venezuelans had better brace themselves for more nationalisation, scarcity and economic decline.
家庭消费在2009年整体下降但是豆芽菜的销量却跳升了10%还多，在日本，豆芽菜是勒紧裤带度日的传统食品。
Household consumption fell in 2009 as a whole but sales of beansprouts, a classic belt-tightening purchase in Japan, jumped by more than 10%.
“勒紧裤带”的意思就是接下来几周、几个月甚至是几年的日子难过了，我们更努力工作，但能得到的比以前少。
Now, "tightening one's belt" simply means that the next few weeks or months or years are going to be more difficult, and we may have to work harder to get less.
几乎可以肯定，到2001年美国将再也不是一个食品输出国;如果必须出口的话，那么其代价就是美国国内人民将勒紧裤带。
It seems almost certain that by2001the United States will no longer be a great foodexporting nation and that，if necessity forces exports，it will be at the price of belttightening at home.
几乎可以肯定，到2001年美国将再也不是一个食品输出国;如果必须出口的话，那么其代价就是美国国内人民将勒紧裤带。
It seems almost certain that by2001the United States will no longer be a great foodexporting nation and that，if necessity forces exports，it will be at the price of belttightening at home.
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