tighten belt

基本解释

Recession Diet Just One Way to Tighten Belt.
經濟衰退時期飲食的唯一選擇“”“”勒緊腰帶。
Whether you're trying to tighten your belt or accelerate your retirement savings, you won't find a much better analytical tool on the Web than Mint.com.
不論你是想要系緊皮帶還是加快退休金的收入，那你找不到一個比Mint.com更好的分析網站了。
The flow conservation law of belt drive is introduced and the conclusion that the tension difference between the tighten belt and the looser leads to speed difference is proved.
介紹了皮帶流量守恒定律，根據此定律論証了皮帶松緊邊拉力差導致速度差這一結論。

All of that is contributing to the need for people to tighten their belt.
NPR: Financial Expert Examines Possibility of Recession
In December 1997 the IMF asked South Korea to tighten its belt a notch (a fiscal improvement of 0.4% of GDP).
ECONOMIST: Has the IMF changed? Or has the world?
Oil prices moved up after 1986 but plunged again in the late 1990s, forcing the industry to once more radically tighten its belt.
FORBES: Magazine Article