Belt noodles are thick and challenge your throat.

裤带面粗得很挑战喉咙。

People were ready to have even their appetites controlled then.

那时候人们还准备好了连裤带都勒紧呢。

Look at me. I'm wearing my fat pants.

看我，裤带渐宽。

He laced up his breeches. " Why not" ?

他系上裤带，" 为什么？"

I do prepare the taxes for my parents, and if we tighten our belts, we'll have sufficient equity for the loan.

但我父母的税都是我在帮忙报的，如果我们勒紧裤带，产的净值足够我们申请贷款。

It irritated her, but she was ashamed to confess it, and now and then she tried to console herself by buying something pretty, so that Sallie needn't think she had to economize.

这让她很恼，但她羞于承认这点，时不时地会购买些漂亮玩意儿，试图安慰自己，这样萨莉就不必以为她必须勒紧裤带过日子。

Flustered, Theon laced himself back up. " I need to start back to the castle. If you do not come with me, I may lose my way for grief, and all the islands would be poorer" .

席恩慌忙提住裤带，" 总，我必须马上回城。你不跟我走的话，只怕我会永远为今天悲叹，就连群岛也将终日失色哪。"