1·With no guarantee that it would be working when I finally got there, I grudgingly decided that I had to economise and so ended up in a dormitory room at Samarkand's cheapest backpacker hostel.
我很不情愿地决定在旅途中节省每一分钱，所以在撒马尔罕，我只能在一家背包客旅馆找了一间宿舍入住。
2·Live-in chefs are very expensive to maintain and their employers can economise by eating out more, entertaining less and using contract caterers when they have dinner parties at home.
住家厨师的薪水是很高的，而且对家庭来说他们并非不可或缺。只要多在外面吃饭，减少娱乐活动，及在住家派对上聘请餐饮承包商，这些家庭便可以节省他们的开支。
3·He suggested that bees which make hexagonal cells evolved in steps from bees that made round cells, under pressure from natural selection to economise wax.
他认为，建筑六角形蜂房的蜜蜂是从建筑圆形蜂房的蜜蜂进化而来；是在节省蜡的自然选择压力下的几个进化阶段形成的。