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
- But Chinese misers prove less miserly and less ambitious when they are compared with those misers and careerists described by Moliai and Balzac.
并非我们没有守财奴，但比起莫里哀与巴尔扎克笔下的守财奴与野心家来，就小巫见大巫了。 - A miserly father makes a prodigal son.
[谚]有吝啬的父亲必有败家之子。 - 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。 - He is more miserly than economical.
与其说他很节省，不如说他很小气。 - 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。 - He was a miserly wretch who grudged us food to eat, and clothes to wear
他是个吝啬的坏蛋，他克扣我们的伙食和穿衣 - 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 miserly gentleman stalked right past the doorman without tipping him.
一位吝啬的先生大摇大摆地从服务员身边径直走过而没有给小费。 - 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。