miserly

adj.

1. 吝啬的；小气的
   hating to spend money
2. 极少的；太小的
   too small

1. ADJ-GRADED 吝啬的;小气的
   If you describe someone as miserly, 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。
2. ADJ-GRADED 极少的；少得可怜的
   If you describe an amount of something as miserly, 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。

1. He is miserly with both his time and his money.
   他对时间和金钱都很吝啬。
2. 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。
3. He is more miserly than economical.
   与其说他很节省，不如说他很小气。
4. 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。
5. An iron rooster in Chinese means miserly.
   铁公鸡在汉语中的意思是一毛不拔。
6. 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。
7. 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。
8. 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。
9. 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。
10. 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。
11. 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。
12. 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。
13. 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。
14. Their miserly offer is unlikely to be accepted.
    他们过低的报价是不可能被接受的。
15. 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。
16. A miserly father makes a prodigal son.
    [谚]有吝啬的父亲必有败家之子。
17. A survey conducted by his group recently found that 80 per cent of Chinese women aged 22 to 32 plan to spend more in the next six months than they did in the last half year ( when they were anything but miserly).
    中国市场研究集团最近的调查发现，在22岁至32岁的中国女性中，80%未来6个月的计划支出高于去年同期（那时她们也算不上节俭）。
18. 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。
19. Don't spoil things by being miserly.
    不要由于小气吝啬而坏事。
20. 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。
21. He only received a miserly, beggarly, begrudging pittance.
    他只得到一份少得可怜的微薄津贴。
22. 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
23. 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。
24. 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。
25. Humor me, I like to live happy, I am more optimistic and I have numerous partners, I am a bit miserly, I do not lose friends, I do lust, I will invite you for coming here!
    我比较幽默，因此我喜欢快乐的活着，我比较开朗，因此我有众多的伙伴，我比较吝啬，因此我没有丧失朋友，我比较好色，所以我才会在这里邀请阁下的光临！
26. 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。
27. The so-called "misery is not miserly" phenomenon is well-known to psychologists, advertisers and personalshoppers alike, and has been documented in a similar study in2004.
    这就是为众多心理学家所知道的所谓的“伤心不吝啬”现象，广告商和店老板也是一样，在2004年在一次相似的试验中被记录下来。
28. 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。

adj

1. (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