miserly

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名词: miserliness

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Low-flush toilets and miserly showerheads mandated in 1992 produced years of consumer grumbling and disobedience.

；在92年采用的节水马桶和喷头的命令引起了数年后消费者的牢骚和抗命。

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。

Classical Chinese really consists of tens of centuries of esoteric anecdotes written in a kind of terse miserly code for dissemination among a small elite group.

古汉语确实含有数千年来积累起来的各种深宫秘闻，以一种简要、惜墨如金的密码写成，这种密码适合在一个很小的精英团体里传播。

So, how to save money without scrimping, be thrifty without feeling miserly -- and maintain those habits after our economy picks up speed?

那么，如何在不用过度俭省的情况下存钱、节约而不显得吝啬--同时在经济加快发展时也能保持这样的习惯？

However, there is no doubt that this is there is a grid of flowers, will never be vulgar, and never so miserly toward the heart and life.

但毫无疑问，这是一朵有格的花，永远不会粗鄙化，永远那么孤寒而向着内心的生活。

Despite the hot weather the miserly bus driver doesn't turn on the aircon. The passengers are sweating terribly.

今天天气很热，坐在公车上，司机竟然舍不得开空调，乘客热得流汗。

By calling him Shylock, I don't mean that he is named Shylock, but that he is as miserly as Shylock.

叫他夏洛克,我不是说他的名字叫夏洛克,而是说他像夏洛克一样吝啬。

"He was a miserly wretch who grudged us food to eat, and clothes to wear" (Charles Dickens).

“他是个吝啬的坏蛋，他克扣我们的伙食和穿衣” （查尔斯·狄）。

A miserly daddy dos a prodigal son.

爱钱如命的父亲生个儿子挥金如土。