She stinted herself of food in order to let the children .

她自己省着吃，好让孩子们吃饱。

Money was short in those days , and our family were stinted of the things that made life easy and pleasant .

在那些日子里钱不够用，因而，我们家免去一切生活奢移品。

If the singapore authority stinted even on such basic freedom of speech , singapore was unfit to self-claim as a democratic country anymore and was only fit to pair with the tyrant in the chinese history who punished the ones who spoke .

新加坡当权者如果连这样的基本言论自由都对民众吝惜的话，不要再提民主国家，恐怕也只能同中国历史上的因言治罪的暴君为伍了。