nickel-and-dime

常见例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

• These adjectives all apply to what is small and unimportant.
  这些形容词都能用于小的和不重要的事物。
• Color and sex are hardly relevant when appointing someone to a job.
  委派某人一项工作时，肤色和性别是不重要的。

用作及物动词 (vt.)

• The skyscrapers are also lavish consumers, and wasters, of electric power.
  摩天大楼还极大地消耗和浪费电力。
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