miserly
英音[ ˈmaɪzəli ] 美音[ ˈmaɪzərli ]

吝啬

常用释义

词性释义

adj.

吝啬的;贪婪的
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《福布斯》最新发布虚拟人物富豪榜。贪婪的老鸭、吸血鬼以及早熟的孩子等虚拟人物纷纷上榜。
Sheer necessity had made the poor girl so miserly that Gtandet had come to feel the affection for her a man feels for his dog.
可怜的姑娘因为一无所有,变得吝啬不堪,终于使葛朗台象喜欢一条狗一样的喜欢她。
However, there is no doubt that this is there is a grid of flowers, will never be vulgar, and never so miserly toward the heart and life.
但毫无疑问,这是一朵有格的花,永远不会粗鄙化,永远那么孤寒而向着内心的生活。
这很好地概括了松下公司:一家规模令人生畏、但传统且吝惜成本的电子产品制造商。
Ms. Li teased her mother about her miserly ways, pointing out that her last clothing purchase was a decade ago.
李女士嘲笑母亲吝啬的方式,指出母亲上次买衣服应该是十年前了。
As he was a miserly person. He thought he would find out what he would have to pay his doctor.
但是因为他是一个很吝啬的人,想弄清楚看病究竟该付多少钱再说。
Harry Truman used the same communist threat to get his way with a miserly Congress.
哈里·杜鲁门同样使用了共产主义威胁来对付吝啬的国会。
Her way of life was mean and miserly, but she did not know it.
她的生活寒怆吝啬,而她不自知。
每一个已同意自己在因特网上的浏览习惯被监测的小组成员每年可以得到50美元的报酬,这似乎有点吝啬。
only loves money, miserly My boss is super greedy. He never lends his dough to anyone.
我老板是个大财迷。他从来不借钱给别人。
有关刺激方案的争论,所带来的是更多的激烈情绪,而不是光明;即便是表面吝啬的德国,也已承诺出台一项大规模刺激方案。
To none is she altogether miserly; but she has her favourites, on whom she squanders much, and for whom she makes great sacrifices.
她不对任一人彻底失望,但却有自己宠爱之人,令她多加挥霍,多加牺牲。
Gratuity can be a tricky business: What's just right in one country can be miserly or extravagant in another.
给小费是一件棘手的事情,在一个国家适当数目的小费在另一个国家可能会被认为太吝啬或是太阔绰。
Even before the recession GDP was barely crawling along, with growth averaging a miserly 0. 7% a year over the past decade (see chart).
在经济衰退之前,GDP勉强爬行,在过去十年里,GDP增长的年平均值仅为0.7%(见下图)。
Libra's tastes are expensive. Virgo is careful, not to say miserly.
天秤品味奢侈,处女则谨慎,但并不吝啬。
这项计划将把政府变成养老金和医疗保险的吝啬提供者。
If it's miserly to count one's blessings, Brewster Ashenden's a miser.
如果整天专注于数着自己财富,那么布鲁斯特.埃森顿就是个吝啬鬼。
"The pincher, " was his thought; "too miserly to burn two cents' worth of gas and save his boarders' necks. "
“吝啬鬼,”他想,“就舍不得花两分钱煤气点个灯,免得房客摔断脖子。”
It is only when it believes something to be rare that the mind ceases to be miserly in assigning values.
只在它相信某件东西是实在稀有罕见的时候,它在事物的估价上才不再吝惜。
The son subverts his father's miserly way of life and consumption and his selfish and domineering father image.
儿子颠覆了父亲“守财奴式”的生活和消费方式以及自私、专制的父亲形象。
If the boss's golden parachute is too miserly, he may block a deal that would benefit shareholders.
若金色降落伞条款对企业老板过于不利,其可能会干预对股东有利的交易;
So, how to save money without scrimping, be thrifty without feeling miserly -- and maintain those habits after our economy picks up speed?
那么,如何在不用过度俭省的情况下存钱、节约而不显得吝啬--同时在经济加快发展时也能保持这样的习惯?
And the US is second from last, described as "miserly" in its aid to developing world farmers.
美国排名倒数第二,其对发展中国家农民的援助被描绘为“吝啬”。
"He was a miserly wretch who grudged us food to eat, and clothes to wear" (Charles Dickens).
“他是个吝啬的坏蛋,他克扣我们的伙食和穿衣”(查尔斯?狄)
消极悲观,听天由命,吝啬贪婪,一毛不拔。
在过去十年中,它的企业一直很现代化,它的工人被纵容贪婪的要求涨工资,增强他们的竞争力。
吝啬的玩家依然可以参与到游戏里,但以开放自己给广告投放的方式间接支付费用。
European operators are still feeling miserly, in spite of the growing wave of smartphone-driven data traffic set to jam up their networks.
尽管智能手机产生的巨大数据流量,势将对欧洲运营商的网络造成拥堵,但它们仍感觉吝啬。
China's official definition of poverty has traditionally been quite miserly.
中国的官方贫困定义一直以来都定得很小气。
原来似乎是非常小气的伯伯竟突然间慷慨起来,这倒一下子把我弄得目瞪口呆。
1·From then on the reader, too, is alert for him, doffing his robe to dance, dominating the tiltyard, until in 1509 he throws the Windows open and sweeps his father's miserly dreariness away.
读者也是从那时候起对他心生警觉,他不穿长袍跳舞,在骑士比武场上称霸,直到1509年他洞开所有的窗户,一扫他父亲满是吝啬的凄凉。
2·And in these earlier studies, people often used their money to punish the richest and most miserly players.
在这些早期实验中,人们常常利用自己的金钱惩罚最富有、最吝啬的玩家。
3·To the extent that valuations are being driven up by price-insensitive VCs, they'll fall again if VCs become more like super-angels and start to become more miserly about valuations.
从某种程度上来说,估值是被对于价格不敏感的风投们拉升起来的,如果风投们变得更像超级天使们且开始变得对估值变得更加吝啬,它们就将回落。
4·Oil firms balked at the miserly terms Iraq was offering for other fields.
对于伊拉克为其它油田提供的吝啬条件,石油公司采取回避态度。
5·Mr. Volcker provided a specific (and, dare I say, miserly) quantity of liquidity, letting interest rates go where the market directed — ultimately 20 percent.
沃尔克先生,提供了一个特定的(而且我敢说是吝啬的)数量的流动性,让利率随市场场变化——最终定为20%。
常用短语
adj.
同义词
adj.
吝啬的;贪婪的
同根词 (词根miser)
miser n 守财奴;吝啬鬼;(石油工程上用的)凿井机
miserliness n 贪婪;吝啬