cheeseparing

1. The opposition party has called for less cheeseparing on the financing of the committee which supervises electricity companies.
   反对党要求给监督电力公司的委员会的拨款不要那样吝啬。
2. The reason is not cheeseparing but the pay without the basis of feeling is a waste.
   不是因为吝啬，而是没有感情基础的付出只是浪费。
3. The company has such a cheeseparing attitude that it makes all its executives travel by train rather than fly.
   这个公司态度十分吝啬，以至于它的行政工作人员出差旅行都是乘火车而不是乘飞机。

adj

1. giving or spending with reluctance
   1. our cheeseparing administration
   2. very close (or near) with his money
   3. a penny-pinching miserly old man

   Synonym:    closenearpenny-pinchingskinny