Yet what if you die before you spend all that money? What would the point of all that scrimping and saving have been?

但是，万一你在花光所有的钱之前就已经死了，那些克扣和节省又是为了什么？

Forrest Gump found scrimping is very tough.

阿甘发现捕虾是件十分困难的事情。

Indeed, the most scathing criticism that could be leveled at the American auto industry would be to say that it was mortgaging the future by scrimping on new - product development.

的确，对美国汽车工业所能提出的最严峻的批评将是：由于在发展新产品方面的紧缩而丧失了未来的掌握。

Meanwhile politicians would be tempted to turn banks into instruments of industrial policy, propping up politically powerful industries such as carmakers and scrimping on more deserving recipients.

同时，这会引起政客们把银行变成产业政策工具的念头，扶持汽车制造等政治上强大的产业，并在接收资产的问题上讨价还价。