People closing the businesses they scrimped and saved to start .
人们正在停止那些靠着精打细算，省吃俭用维持住的生意。
I had scrimped and saved to get at least two stickers a week - sometimes three if I had a little extra left over .
我省吃俭用，节衣缩食，争取每周得到两张以上的贴纸。有时如果有点额外盈余的话能拿到三张。
At a recent conference at tsinghua university in beijing , students complained that their parents had scrimped and saved to send them to university in the city , but now upon graduation they could barely afford to live there .
She described how her father had hardly missed a day of work despite suffering from multiple sclerosis , and had saved and scrimped to pay that share of his children 's college tuition that was not covered by government grants and student loans .
