He started his business on a shoestring. It took a lot of hard work and clever planning to build up it up to where it is today.
他的公司是小本经营开办起来的，经过不少的艰苦劳动和苦心规划，才发展到今天这个样子。BUSINESS in a small way, this factory has now developed into a large-scale enterprise.
该厂从小本经营开始，如今已发展成规模宏伟的大型企业了。Investment, production and sales, the pace of reunification of thinking, is tantamount to monopoly, small businesses could hardly survive.
投资、制作与销售，统一思想统一步伐，形同垄断，小本经营几乎无法生存。Traditionally only immigrant and small mom-and-pop businesses were willing to risk the city's intermittent crackdowns.
传统意义上只有移民和小本经营的“夫妻店”才愿意去冒被市政府取缔的危险。has a little nickle-and-dime business that makes just enough money to put food on the table and pay the rent.
这句话是说一个人有个小本经营的小买卖，挣来的钱刚够饭钱和房租。Wimdu is no shoestring operation: in June it raised $90m from its core investors.
Wimdu并非小本经营，今年6月，它从核心投资者那募集了9000万美元。Gary started this business back in 1975 on a shoestring.
加里从1975里开始小本经营生意。Mom-and-pop shops often allow haggling on prices, undercutting even big chains.
中国小本经营的商店常允许顾客砍价，其产品价格甚至可低过大型连锁超市。Mr. Smith began in a small way and piked along.
史密斯先生开始小本经营而后发迹。