miserly

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。

A miserly father makes a prodigal son .

[谚]有吝啬的父亲必有败家之子。

He is miserly with both his time and his money .

他对时间和金钱都很吝啬。

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。

Miserly enough to conserve battery life to a maximum degree

十分省电，可以最大限度地延长电池寿命

It would turn the government into a miserly provider of pensions and health insurance .

这项计划将把政府变成养老金和医疗保险的吝啬提供者。

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。

He is wise and miserly and you cannot skin him out of money .

他既聪明又小气，你从他那里是根本骗不到钱的。

An iron rooster in Chinese means miserly .

铁公鸡在汉语中的意思是一毛不拔。

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 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 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。

Their miserly offer is unlikely to be accepted .

他们过低的报价是不可能被接受的。

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。

Alas for labels and artists , however , their payout is miserly .

然而，这样音乐公司和歌手的收入就杯具了。

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 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

Arguments about stimulus generate much more heat than light ; even apparently miserly Germany has committed to a large stimulus programme .

有关刺激方案的争论，所带来的是更多的激烈情绪，而不是光明；即便是表面吝啬的德国，也已承诺出台一项大规模刺激方案。

Don 't spoil things by being miserly .

不要由于小气吝啬而坏事。

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。

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。

European operators are still feeling miserly , in spite of the growing wave of smartphone-driven data traffic set to jam up their networks .

尽管智能手机产生的巨大数据流量，势将对欧洲运营商的网络造成拥堵，但它们仍感觉吝啬。

He is more miserly than economical .

与其说他很节省，不如说他很小气。

Alas for labels and artists , however , their payout is miserly . Under subscription deals , they collect as little as 30 won per track .

不过，唱片公司和歌手就悲剧了，他们从中获得的分红简直少得可怜。订阅销售模式下，唱片公司和歌手每首歌只能收取30韩元。

There is no squandering on trifles , and its wealth of strength is saved up with miserly strictness to meet the really big calamities .

它的力量靠精打细算地积攒起来，用以应对真正的巨大灾难。

If returns had averaged 5 per cent a year , then the Buffett Foundation would have a miserly $ 32m to pass to Bill Gates ' charities .

如果平均年收益率为5%，那么，巴菲特基金会将只有可怜的3200万美元可以提供给比尔•盖茨的慈善基金。

He only received a miserly , beggarly , begrudging pittance .

他只得到一份少得可怜的微薄津贴。

When a very miserly man nicknamed the " stingy ghost " died and went to hell , the Yama King reproached him , saying ,

有一个人很吝啬，叫吝啬鬼，他死了以后下地狱，阎罗王骂他说：

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。

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。