So Walgreens is tightening its belt.

因此，沃尔格林正在收紧支出。

And tighten your belt. Your pants are coming, down.

“束紧皮带。你的裤子要掉下来了。”

When companies tighten their belts, they look first to discretionary spending.

当企业勒紧裤腰带时，他们首先考虑的是可自行决定的支出。

I'm afraid so. I think we may have to start tightening our belts.

恐怕如此。我想我们要勒紧腰带过日子了。

The ability to push through price increases as customers tighten their belts requires careful management.

要想具备在消费者勒紧裤腰带的情况下推动价格上涨的能力，需要谨慎管理。

And scarcity thinking, the idea that even rich countries need to tighten their belts, has taken hold.

稀缺性思维，即使是富裕国家也需要勒紧裤腰带的想法，已经站稳了脚跟。

Financially, we all need to tighten our belts so we can weather whatever monetary storms the year might throw up.

在经济上，我们都需要勒紧腰带才能度过今年可能发生的货币风暴。

When they fall, people tighten their belts.

当他们跌倒时，人们会勒紧腰带。

No wonder investors are tightening their belts.

难怪投资者勒紧裤腰带。

Fine. One treat. That's it. Those things are expensive, and until your disability kicks in, we have to tighten our belts.

好吧。就一块。够了。这些东西很贵，在你眼睛复明之前，我们得勒紧腰带过日子。

Tighten the belt, the single remedy.

勒紧腰带，唯一的补救措施。

My belt is actually loose, I need to tighten my belt.

我的腰带实际上松了， 我需要系紧腰带。

Due to the global economic recession, businesses had to tighten their belts.

由于全球经济衰退，企业不得不勒紧裤腰带。

He tightened his belt before going for a run.

腰带：他在跑步前勒紧了腰带。

Whereas if the government tightens its belt when people and businesses are doing the same, less is spent, so unemployment gets even worse.

如果政府勒紧裤腰带，生意人也是如此，花得更少，失业率会更糟。

Apparently, CloudKitchens is trying to tighten its belt as it deals with higher interest rates and the end of the free money era.

显然，随着利率上升和自由货币时代的结束， CloudKitchens 正试图勒紧裤腰带。

This year, China’s two major stock exchanges lost almost a quarter of their value, prompting concerns that consumers will be tightening their belts.

今年， 中国两大证券交易所的市值下跌了近四分之一，引发了人们对消费者将勒紧裤腰带的担忧。

When this happens, poor people have to " tighten their belts" and live on less money than usual. I hate when I have to live on less money.

这时，没钱的人只能“扎紧腰带”，比平时花得更少。我讨厌那些拮据的日子。

If you have less money than usual, you may have to " tighten your belt" -- you may have to live on less money and spend your money carefully.

当钱不多时，你可能要勒紧裤腰带了，少花些钱，小心地花钱。

Then he shucked off his boots and pulled them inside his belt upside down at either side and tightened the belt as far as he could pull it and turned and dove into the river.

然后，他脱下靴子， 将它们倒扣在腰带内， 尽可能地拉紧腰带， 然后转身潜入河中。