save for purchases

基本解釋

Do I plan and save for big purchases or do I buy on a whim?
我買大件商品的時候，是有計劃的、竝且會爲(wèi)此存錢，還是憑著一時沖動？
Pay Retail for Name Brand Clothing – You can easily save hundreds of dollars a year on clothing purchases by waiting for sales or shopping at discount retailers like Marshalls.
買名牌衣服——等到大甩賣（的時候購買衣服）或者在像Marshalls（譯者：美國一家連鎖百貨公司）這樣的折釦店購物，每年你可以輕松地節(jié)省下成千上百美元。
Businesses had deferred purchases of servers during the economic down times to save costs, extending the replacement cycle for products that tend to have a working lifespan of about five years.
在經(jīng)濟(jì)低迷時期，企業(yè)推遲購買服務(wù)器以節(jié)省成本，延長了産品的更換周期。服務(wù)器的使用壽命通常爲(wèi)5年左右。

While some children quickly learned how to save up an allowance for major purchases, most kids learn a more immediately-satisfying method: Spend your allowance on whatever you want to buy right now.
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By contrast, the young parents, living on only one income, or if the wife has a part-time job, one-and-a-half incomes, of which the take-home portion, after deductions for tax and pension contributions, are economizing, avoiding major purchases, trying to save a little while making ends meet.
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