miserly

1 If it's miserly to count one's blessings, Brewster Ashenden's a miser.

如果对自己所有念念不忘是一种吝啬，那么，我，布鲁斯特·阿什旦是一个吝啬鬼。

2 He is wise and miserly and you cannot skin him out of money.

他既聪明又小气,你从他那里是根本骗不到钱的.

3 While Weekend Miser is off to Los Angeles, and probably not behaving in a very miserly fashion, we are left to our own devices to find cheap entertainment.

4 Her father is very rich and miserly.

他父亲很富有,可也很吝啬.

5 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。

6 He left a miserly tip.

他留下一点吝啬的小费.

7 Plummer’s twinkle gave the miserly tycoon more warmth than Spacey’s portrayal, but both actors captured the character’s isolation, he says.

8 Inn host is very miserly, what give everyday is dietary and very few.

客店主人很吝啬, 天天给的饭食很少.

9 Bud Miller, the miserly chief executive of Milweiser Brewing, sits in his office on Christmas Eve counting grains of corn.

10 Jeanne learns that her husband is both miserly and chronically unfaithful, and her only son proves to be a spendthrift wastrel who depletes the family fortune, leaving her in near-poverty toward the end.

11 It was one of the most visually beautiful cities I’d ever visited, as well as cheap: Tasty food, decent lodging and rich cultural experiences are well within reach of even the most miserly budget.

12 Here they are seen 20 years after the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future have transformed Scrooge from a miserly malcontent into a charitable model citizen and Christmas celebrator.

13 I think it's in the prevailing paradigm of concert programming – in its dry, miserly narratives, its identikit presentations, its uninviting spaces.

14 But as he was a miserly person he thought he would find out what he would have to pay this doctor.

但由于他是一个吝啬的人，他原以为他会找出什么，他便要付出这样的医生。

15 At London's Apollo Theatre, takes on the role of miserly, drunken former actor James Tyrone in a new production of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night.

16 Why does your baby compare you with her friend's better parents and make you feel like an overprotective, miserly clown?

17 The Smeaths in our rendition of them are charmless, miserly, heavy as dough, boring as white margarine, which we claim they eat for dessert.

18 He is miserly with both his time and his money.

他对时间和金钱都非常吝啬。

19 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。

20 Couple of a pair of landlords, famous ground is miserly.

一对地主夫妇, 出名地吝啬.

1 极少的

few small mingy fat minimal a scintilla of

2 吝啬

narrowfisted small close near cheap tight Scottish stingy illiberal parsimonious churlish penny-pinching chintzy penurious niggardly tight-fisted mingy unhandsome cheeseparing close-fisted hardfisted scrimpy begrudgingly scantily meanly churlishly parsimoniously closeness parsimony stinginess churlishness illiberality penny-pinch screw pinch scotch mean beggarly cheese-paring ungenerous mean-minded stingily ungenerously meanness miserliness niggardliness grasping chary niggard tightfisted closefisted nearly penury skimp scant hungry miserable sordid skimpy covetous costive scrimp scungy pinch pennies careful narrow-fisted little narrow managing skinny shabby paltry scaly scanty screwy grudging pinchpenny gripple skimpingly charily pikerism nearness smallness littleness chariness iron fisted nippy ironfisted chinchy hunks squeeze the eagle

3 极小的

minute outside tiny minimal dwarf microscopic fractional midget minuscule weeny razor-thin Lilliputian itsy-bitsy

4 自私

mean selfish thoughtless

5 吝啬鬼的

miserable

6 不足的

poor inadequate insufficient slender scant skimpy meagre scanty little

7 不足

poor inadequate insufficient slender wanting scant pinched skimpy meagre scanty incommensurate poorly little failure shortage minus scarcity inadequacy demerit poorness fail lack be lacking in

8 少得可怜的

miserable measly mingy

9 小气

mean close cheap tight petty stingy parsimonious penny-pinching chintzy niggardly tight-fisted parsimony careful small-minded mingy close-fisted cheeseparing narrow scotch skimpy ungenerous pimping niggard unhandsome skimpingly meanly stingily pikerism meanness smallness small miserable contracted nigh scaly nippy illiberal costive carking closefisted hardfisted ironfisted

10 小得可怜的

miserable

11 节省

economical thrifty sparing cut retrenchment retrench save spare curtail pare down draw in horns

12 贪婪

hungry greedy sordid grasping rapacious covetous gluttonous lupine avaricious grabby piggish wolfish vulturine openmouthed hoggish avidly greedily voraciously ravenously wolfishly avariciously covetously greed avarice greediness avidity cupidity rapacity voracity greedy as a wolf avid esurient Jewish itchy ravenous cormorant acquisitive prehensile open-mouthed vulturous wolvish gripple lickerish hogly gulosity esurience itching sordor hoggery hog

13 守财奴的

miserable

14 吝啬的

narrowfisted small close near cheap tight Scottish stingy illiberal parsimonious churlish penny-pinching chintzy penurious niggardly tight-fisted mingy unhandsome cheeseparing close-fisted hardfisted scrimpy scotch mean beggarly ungenerous mean-minded grasping chary niggard tightfisted closefisted hungry miserable sordid skimpy covetous costive cheese-paring scungy careful narrow-fisted little narrow managing skinny shabby scant paltry scaly scanty screwy grudging pinchpenny gripple iron fisted scrimp nippy ironfisted chinchy

15 守财奴

screw miser curmudgeon skinflint hunks churl niggard muckworm

16 贫乏

lean miserable meagre poverty deprivation poorness

17 小气的

mean cheap tight petty stingy parsimonious penny-pinching chintzy niggardly tight-fisted close careful small-minded mingy close-fisted narrow scotch skimpy ungenerous pimping niggard unhandsome cheeseparing small miserable contracted nigh scaly nippy illiberal costive carking closefisted hardfisted ironfisted

18 贪婪的

hungry greedy sordid grasping rapacious covetous gluttonous lupine avaricious grabby piggish wolfish vulturine openmouthed hoggish greedy as a wolf avid esurient Jewish itchy ravenous cormorant acquisitive prehensile open-mouthed vulturous wolvish gripple lickerish hogly itching

19 贫乏的

lean miserable meagre

20 自私的

mean selfish thoughtless

21 极少

few small mingy miserably minimal once in a blue moon

22 节省的

economical thrifty sparing