bean counter

noun

1. 精打细算的账房先生
   a person who works with money, for example as an accountant and who wants to keep strict control of how much money a company spends

1. N-COUNT 精打细算的会计（或管理人员）
   You can describe people such as accountants and business managers as bean counters if you disapprove of them because you think they are only interested in money.
   1. ...bean counters who tend to focus on controlling expenses.
      精打细算、一味想要控制开支的管理层

1. The toughest bean counter in town, hands down, was red poling.
   在钱上最锱铢必较的人当属福特前CEO雷德•波林。
2. Companies tended to recognize two cultures-that of the technologist and that of the bean counter ( Financial Times)
   公司常倾向承认两种文化&工艺师的文化和会计师的文化（金融时报）
3. My wife is really a bean counter.
   这位丈夫说：我的妻子老是算计一点点钱。
4. No one has ever catalogued them all, and it's doubtful that any of the plane's natives, let alone any other bean counter, has ever considered the effort worth the time and danger.
   没有人对到底有多少层做过统计，甚至不敢去考虑到这个任务所花费的时间和面对的危险（因为很难想像这个位面的居民会放任这个统计者不管）。

noun

1. an accountant or bureaucrat who is believed to place undue emphasis on the control of expenditures