They really know how to nickel and dime you.

他们真的知道如何给你五分钱。

They have shopping baskets to carry their nickels and dimes and quarters.

他们有购物篮来装他们的硬币、硬币和 25 美分硬币。

The nickels and dimes she earned with her shooting added up.

她通过拍摄赚取的硬币和硬币加起来。

And in one month, just from pennies, and nickels and dimes, we raised more than three million dollars that we used to send one student.

在一个月内 仅仅是那些面值极小的零钱我们就募到了三百多万美元我们用这笔钱将每个州的一位学子。

This summer he had gotten like a kid about hiding those nickels and dimes he kept for himself.

今年夏天，他像个孩子一样藏起了自己留着的零钱。

The nickels and dimes that he handed me were strangely smooth and bright, the design almost obliterated by a tinny covering.

他递给我的五分硬币和一角硬币出奇地光滑和明亮， 图案几乎被一层锡皮遮住了。

A " dime" (dime) is the ten-cent coin in the U.S. There's a phrase " to nickel and dime (someone), " or " to nickel and dime (someone) to death" using these words as verbs.

“dime”（dime）是美国的十美分硬币。有“to nickel and dime（某人）”或“to nickel and dime（某人）致死”等短语将这些词用作动词。

" To nickel and dime (someone)" – we'll often say " to nickel and dime (someone) to death" – means to make someone pay many small amounts of money that eventually add up to a lot of money.

“To nickel and dime (someone)”——我们常说“to nickel and dime (someone) to death”——意思是让某人付出很多小钱，最终加起来会变成很多钱。