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
- 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。 - She muttered something to herself about penny-pinching miserly old men.
她喃喃自语地抱怨那些小气的老守财奴。 - Because if you want to have secure security, obviously you end up spending more money and sometimes people are miserly with that.
因为雇用安保服务要花很多钱，有人不想这样。 - He is miserly with both his time and his money.
他对时间和金钱都很吝啬。 - A miserly father makes a prodigal son.
[谚]有吝啬的父亲必有败家之子。 - He said the bulk of this is held in deposit accounts earning miserly returns.
他表示，日本大部分家庭储蓄以存款形式存在银行，收益微薄。 - She's so miserly that she won't give anything to anyone.
她如此吝啬，不给任何人任何东西。 - 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）。 - 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。 - An iron rooster in Chinese means miserly.
铁公鸡在汉语中的意思是一毛不拔。