miserly

英 [ˈmaɪzəli]

美 [ˈmaɪzərli]

adj.  吝啬的; 小气的; 极少的; 太小的

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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.
  1. He is miserly with both his time and his money.
     他对时间和金钱都很吝啬。
• 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.
  1. 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。

英英释义

adj

• (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity
  1. a mean person
  2. he left a miserly tip
  Synonym:meanmingytight

双语例句

• He only received a miserly, beggarly, begrudging pittance.
  他只得到一份少得可怜的微薄津贴。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Swiss tourists were commended for being quiet and considerate, unlike the Britons who were judged to be the fifth worst tourists because of rude behavior, noise and a miserly attitude to tipping.
  瑞士游客不会大声喧哗，而且善于体谅他人，因而受到酒店经营者们的赞扬；而英国游客则因行为粗鲁、喧哗和吝啬小费成为素质最差的第五大游客群。
• Real people have other concerns, and when the game is played in the laboratory, the first player usually offers a more even split, and tends to regret it if her offer is too miserly.
  但现实中的人会有其他考虑，如果这个博弈在实验室中进行，第一位参与者通常会更平均地分配，如果她给第二位参与者分配得太过吝啬，可能就会后悔。