miserly
英 [ˈmaɪzəli]
美 [ˈmaɪzərli]
adj. 吝啬的; 小气的; 极少的; 太小的
BNC.32914 / COCA.27418
牛津词典
adj.
- 吝啬的；小气的
hating to spend money - 极少的；太小的
too small
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 吝啬的;小气的
If you describe someone asmiserly, you disapprove of them because they seem to hate spending money, and to spend as little as possible.- He is miserly with both his time and his money.
他对时间和金钱都很吝啬。
- He is miserly with both his time and his money.
- ADJ-GRADED 极少的；少得可怜的
If you describe an amount of something asmiserly, you are critical of it because it is very small.- Being a student today with miserly grants and limited career prospects is difficult.
现今，做一名补助金少得可怜、职业前景渺茫的学生非常不容易。
- Being a student today with miserly grants and limited career prospects is difficult.
英英释义
adj
- (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity
- a mean person
- he left a miserly tip
双语例句
- He is miserly with both his time and his money.
他对时间和金钱都很吝啬。 - An iron rooster in Chinese means miserly.
铁公鸡在汉语中的意思是一毛不拔。 - Their miserly offer is unlikely to be accepted.
他们过低的报价是不可能被接受的。 - I had previously lived the life of a miserly savage.
我以前曾像吝啬的野蛮人那样生活过。 - A miserly father makes a prodigal son.
[谚]有吝啬的父亲必有败家之子。 - A survey conducted by his group recently found that 80 per cent of Chinese women aged 22 to 32 plan to spend more in the next six months than they did in the last half year ( when they were anything but miserly).
中国市场研究集团最近的调查发现，在22岁至32岁的中国女性中，80%未来6个月的计划支出高于去年同期（那时她们也算不上节俭）。 - Now I am confused about my duty and have lost all composure because of miserly weakness.
现在我对我的责任感到困惑茫然，这可怕的脆弱使我失去了一切平静。 - 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。 - Swiss tourists were commended for being quiet and considerate, unlike the Britons who were judged to be the fifth worst tourists because of rude behavior, noise and a miserly attitude to tipping.
瑞士游客不会大声喧哗，而且善于体谅他人，因而受到酒店经营者们的赞扬；而英国游客则因行为粗鲁、喧哗和吝啬小费成为素质最差的第五大游客群。 - It sums up the company well: an electronics manufacturer of formidable scope, but traditional and with a miserly eye on costs.
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。