pin money

音標發(fā)音

I have no pin money with me.
“我沒帶零花錢”這樣繙對嗎？
when I was at school, every student is requested to donate pin money to project hope, year after year.
在我們做學生的時候，大家都曾經(jīng)被要求爲希望工程捐獻，而且年複一年。
If I cut out cigarette and pin money for the next two weeks I could manage well enough.
我把下兩個星期的抽菸和零花錢省下來，應該足夠能應付了。

Outside Athens some in the public sector see their jobs as a sideline to earn pin money while their main occupation is farming.
ECONOMIST: Greek woes
The main reason: inadequate collection resources at the IRS. Even considering the gigantic size of the federal government, this is not pin money.
FORBES: Stiffing Uncle Sam Is Easy
Brokerage firms often are in the midst of wrongdoing because they serve as the lynch-pin between pensions, money managers, pension consultants and securities trading.
FORBES: Investigating Brokerages (May 1, 2002 )

a small amount of extra money that a person earns to buy things that they want but do not need

Pin money is small amounts of extra money that someone earns or gets in order to buy things that they want but that they do not really need.