shoestring
adj. <非正>用錢極少的,小本經營的
Shoestrings are long, narrow pieces of material like pieces of string that you use to fasten your shoes.
A shoestring budget is one where you have very little money to spend.
The British-produced film was made on a shoestring budget.
這部英國出品的電影是小成本製作。
If you do something or make something on a shoestring, you do it using very little money.
The theatre will be run on a shoestring.
戲院將小本經營。
1. a lace used for fastening shoes
2. a small amount of money;
Trading on a shoestring raises the pressure to a deadly level.
用小資金交易,壓力是致命的.
We were living on a shoestring.
我們當時生活艱難.
I've been living on a shoestring since my mother stopped sending me money.
我的母親停止給我寄錢之後,我的日子過得非常寒酸.
Q: How can I take the best possible digital pictures on a shoestring budget?
問: 怎樣用很小投資拍攝最好的數碼照片?
We still had to operate on a shoestring.
我們仍得小本經營.