Jim tried to spare his mother.

The new design dispensed with the extra generator.

新的设计省掉了那台备用的发电机.

Treasures fill the home.

金玉满堂.

Brew your own beer and wine.

自己酿酒,丰衣足食.

Everybody, he assured her, was well off in Lowick.

他叫她放心, 在洛依克,每个人都丰衣足食.

Such studies are to me unworthy ones.

这些学问对我而言不名一文.

Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

为什么帮你管理你的所有投资的人叫做“不名一文的人”?

He's a ruined man, ie has lost all his money, prospects, etc.

他已不名一文(损失了全部钱财 、 断送了前途等).

He had little concern for money, though he could have been extremely wealthy.

他本可以腰缠万贯, 但他淡漠金钱.

He is rolling in money.

他腰缠万贯,过奢华的生活.

He is the man ( whom ) they understood to be extremely rich.

他就是那个他们认为腰缠万贯的人.

It's not a very grand house.

这房子并不是十分富丽堂皇。

He had a large amount of property in hand because of his position.

他因为有地位,所以有万贯家财任其支配.

Others were owners of great wealth and property.

有些人拥有万贯家财.

He contracted huge debts by buying luxuries he could not afford.

他因购买买不起的奢侈品而债台高筑.

He was deep in debt needed every cent he could earn.

当时他已经债台高筑,非常需要钱.

Now he has realized that he's already up to his ears in debt.

现在他认识到他已经债台高筑.

He build up a big load of debts, then skipped town with all his merchandise.

他债台高筑, 带着所有的货物匆匆离镇而去.

He piled debts up until he went bankrupt.

他在破产以前已债台高筑了.

He at the age of three and lost his mother at theof seven.

他三岁丧父,七岁丧母,家贫如洗,只得靠行乞为生.

Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.

白手兴家的人,少不免总有自豪其成就的倾向.