shoestring

shoestring

美 [ˈʃuːˌstrɪŋ] 　英 [ˈʃuːˌstrɪŋ]

• adj.资金不多的；(像鞋带一样)细长条的
• n.鞋带
• 网络小额资本；小本经营的；零星资金

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The effort ran on a shoestring. There was no mechanism for taking contributions , no offices or bookkeeping system .

茶党的活动经费很少，没有建立一个接受社会捐赠的机制，没有办公场所，也不记账。

He started his business on a shoestring. It took a lot of hard work and clever planning to build up it up to where it is today.

他的公司是小本经营开办起来的，经过不少的艰苦劳动和苦心规划，才发展到今天这个样子。

Like most of his classmates, Scott tries to get by on a shoestring and manages to earn enough in odd jobs to pay some expenses.

和他的大多数同学一样，斯科特试着花极少的钱，并打些零工支付基本费用。

Everything she was about to become was already apparent, even on a shoestring budget.

每一件事她打算成为的显而易见，甚至在只有极少预算的情况下。

The Indian space program is enviable for working out of a shoestring budget.

印度空间计划使用有限的预算是令人羡慕的。

By international standards, the campaign has a shoestring budget of just $10m a year.

根据国际标准，这场运动一年一千万美金的预算是很微薄的。

She is running a boutique business on a shoestring budget. She even made a brochure for the items in her shop.

她在经营小成本的精品店生意，还做了小册子，介绍她店里的东西。

An American science student has captured images of the curvature of the Earth after sending a balloon into space on a shoestring budget.

美国一名理科生投入小成本向太空发射了一个气球，拍摄到地球表面图像。

Start by reaching out via social networks like Facebook or Twitter, recommends Melissa Massello, founder of online magazine Shoestring.

那就从学会使用社交网站Facebook或Twitter开始，曾是电子杂志《鞋带》的创办者梅丽莎·马赛罗（MelissaMassello）这样建议。

Over the past decade many online journals and article repositories have emerged that are run on a shoestring.

在过去十年中，许多线上期刊和文库的经营举步维艰，勉强糊口。

They may have fond memories of backpacking around India or Guatemala on a shoestring during their younger days.

他们可能回忆起年轻时在印度或危地马拉省吃俭用背包旅行的经历。

But you know I am living on a shoestring these days.

但你知道这久我手头紧。

Concern that the army is fighting two wars on a shoestring budget refuses to go away.

军队只用了极少的预算，却打着两场战争，人们对此的担忧挥之不去。

Too, there's a difference between 20-somethings living on a shoestring and tourists "of a certain age" who stay in fine hotels.

并且，20岁左右的穷游族和有“一定年纪”而且住在漂亮酒店的游客是有区别的。

Pop-up restaurants are a similar phenomenon: temporary outlets done on a shoestring on a short-term licence.

游击餐厅的现象很相似：用短期的执照和极少量的投资就能开一个临时摊档。

Layoffs, tuition increases and shoestring budgets are not what community college leaders envisioned.

裁员，学费上涨，预算微薄并不是社区学院领导所期望的。

This was a kind of brainstorming for governments living on a shoestring.

这是具有共同经济利益的国家间的商讨。

Nobody wanted to finance the project, so Salih went home to California and built it himself on a shoestring budget.

当时没有人愿意资助他的这个项目，所以Salih回到了加利福尼亚州自己以低成本制造了这辆车。

How can I take the best possible digital pictures on a shoestring budget?

怎样用很小投资拍摄最好的数码照片？

Wimdu is no shoestring operation: in June it raised $90m from its core investors.

Wimdu并非小本经营，今年6月，它从核心投资者那募集了9000万美元。

Oh, you're a film snob. I bet you only watch indie films made on a shoestring budget with low production values.

啊，你对电影自视甚高啊。我猜你只看那种制作成本低廉，没多少价值的独立电影。

Found on chromosomes in both cancerous and normal cells, telomeres areanalogous to plastic caps that keep shoestring ends from unraveling.

癌细胞与正常细胞的染色体上都发现有发现端粒，端粒是类似塑料瓶盖的结构，能够阻止染色体末端的解开。

However, with their *shoestring budgets, these nongovernmental organizations can do little more than collect reports.

但是，由于预算十分紧张，这些非政府组织只能收集这些报告，除此之外什么也做不了。

Gary started this business back in 1975 on a shoestring.

加里从1975里开始小本经营生意。

If you are the client, you probably won't worry about cost unless you're on a shoestring.

如果你是顾客，只要手头宽裕，可能就不会考虑费用问题。

If you do something on a shoestring, you do it using very little money. Shoestring.

除了有本意鞋带的意思之外，还有小额资金的意思。

EarthSound started on a shoestring because the founders couldn't find any investors for such a risky venture.

天籁以小资本额创业，因为创办人当初没办法为这个风险高的事业找到投资人。

Instead, he is back to living on a shoestring -- a very low budget.

但是，他却相反的过着拮据的日子——极低的预算。

On a shoestring budget? Try these wallet-friendly health heroes.

预算紧张？来试试这些荷包友好型的健康英雄们吧~

Eight years ago this September I was furiously flicking through Lonely Planet's Europe on a Shoestring guide.

八年前，九月份的某天，我正不停地翻阅着LonelyPlanet的《穷游欧洲》旅游指南书。

The two boys traveled through Europe on a shoestring.

这两个男孩以极少的钱游遍了欧洲。

I mean we were living, most of us, on a shoestring.

我的意思是，我们大多数人的生活都只靠着微薄的资金。

If you are on a shoestring, you probably won't look at a professional photographer's price list.

如果你手头不宽裕，可能压根儿就不会考虑职业摄影师。

We've been living on a shoestring since my husband lost his job.

我丈夫失业后，我们一直精打细算过日子。

We were living on a shoestring.

我们当时生活艰难。

Tom: No way! We're on a shoestring budget. We'd better walk!

不行！我们预算有限。最好用走的去！

When you started this company on a shoestring, skeptics claimed that you wouldn't find a market.

当贵公司以小资本创业的时候，有人带着怀疑的眼光说你们会找不到市场。

For years, he went his business on a shoestring.

多年来，他的生意都只是仅能维持。

This company has operated on a shoestring for many years now .

这家公司靠那么一丁点资金已经营运好几年。

Sure . I'll be living on a shoestring , staying in youth hostels and eating cheap food . I think I can make my savings last .

当然啦，我会省吃俭用，住青年宿舍，吃便宜食物。我觉得一定能省足够的钱。