penny-pinching
英
美
- n. 小气；吝啬
- adj. 小气的；吝啬的
详细释义
Noun:
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extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily
-
giving or spending with reluctance;
"our cheeseparing administration"
"very close (or near) with his money"
"a penny-pinching miserly old man"
双语例句
- 1. Don't be so penny-pinching! It won't cost that much!
- 别那么小气了，这花不了多少钱的！
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- 2. But I was not because of penny-pinching, it is because the body can not draw.
- 可我不是因为囊中羞涩，就是因为抽不了身。
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- 3. But I was not because of penny-pinching, it is because the body can not draw.
- 可我不是因为囊中羞涩，就是因为抽不了身。
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- Some of my relatives were penny pinchers.
我的一些亲戚真是小气。 - Eleanor has been always a penny pincher ever since she was young.
埃莉诺从年轻时候起就一直是个非常吝啬的人。 - Tom had a reputation as a miser who hoarded every penny he could get his hands on.
汤姆以吝啬出名，他把每一分能够到手的钱都囤积起来。 - Eleanor has been always a penny pincher ever since she was young.
埃莉诺从年轻时候起就一直是个非常吝啬的人。
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相关词汇
- thrift 节俭
- abstinence 节制
- frugal 节俭的
- thrifty 节俭的
- tightfisted 吝啬的
- stingy 吝啬的
- parsimonious 极度节省的
- skinny 皮的
- cheeseparing 吝啬
- parsimony 过度节俭
- near 近的
- parsimoniousness 吝啬
- close 关
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