nickel-and-dime

常見例句

用作形容詞 (adj.)

• These adjectives all apply to what is small and unimportant.
  這些形容詞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.
  委派某人一項工作時，膚色和性別是不重要的。

用作及物動詞 (vt.)

• The skyscrapers are also lavish consumers, and wasters, of electric power.
  摩天大樓還極大地消耗和浪費電力。
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