penny-pinching

英 [ˈpeni pɪntʃɪŋ]

美 [ˈpeni pɪntʃɪŋ]

adj.  吝啬的; 悭吝的; 小气的

牛津词典

adj.

• 吝啬的；悭吝的；小气的
  unwilling to spend money

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 小气；吝啬
  Penny-pinchingis the practice of trying to spend as little money as possible.
  1. Government penny-pinching is blamed for the decline in food standards.
     政府吝啬被指责是食品标准下降的原因。
• ADJ 小气的；吝啬的
  Penny-pinchingpeople spend as little money as possible.
  1. ...small-minded penny-pinching administrators.
     心胸狭隘、一毛不拔的管理者

英英释义

noun

• extreme care in spending money
  Synonym:parsimonyparsimoniousnessthrift

adj

• giving or spending with reluctance
  1. our cheeseparing administration
  2. very close (or near) with his money
  3. a penny-pinching miserly old man
  Synonym:cheeseparingclosenearskinny

双语例句

• Good preventative health care means we cannot allow penny-pinching.
  良好的预防性保健意味着我们不能舍不得花钱。
• I sympathise with your plight, being a penny-pinching wine duffer myself.
  我对你的处境深感同情，因为我本人也是一个锱铢必较的酒盲。
• We must strike a balance between reckless spending and penny-pinching.
  我们必须在挥霍和吝啬之间找到平衡点。
• 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！
• Men turn from penny-pinching savers to big spenders if they think there is a shortage of women around them according to new research.
  新研究显示，男性认为周围女性数量不足时就会从小气节俭变成慷慨大方。
• And life insurers struggle to sell policies when people are penny-pinching.
  而对寿险公司而言，当人们变得吝啬的时候，销售保单就需要几经努力了。
• This danger does not justify penny-pinching now: that could merely prompt a bigger collapse in economic activity and even larger deficits.
  高赤字风险并不说明节俭的政策就合理：那只会使经济更加崩溃，赤字甚至会更高。
• Government penny-pinching is blamed for the decline in food standards.
  政府吝啬被指责是食品标准下降的原因。
• I've had to ponder the times when my penny-pinching irritated my family or when I denied myself some small pleasure because it wasn't the cheapest choice.
  有时候，自己的锱铢必较让家人生气；有时候，因为想买的东西不是最便宜的，我不得不忍痛放弃。为了撰写专栏，这些情景我都得一样一样地回味。
• The stocks of several large tech companies have had a rough time in recent years, thanks to the penny-pinching in it budgets.
  由于各大公司缩减IT预算，许多大型科技公司的股票在近几年表现不佳。