penny-pinching

英 [ˈpeni pɪntʃɪŋ]

美 [ˈpeni pɪntʃɪŋ]

adj.  吝啬的; 悭吝的; 小气的

牛津词典

adj.

• 吝啬的；悭吝的；小气的
  unwilling to spend money

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 小气；吝啬
  Penny-pinchingis the practice of trying to spend as little money as possible.
  1. Government penny-pinching is blamed for the decline in food standards.
     政府吝啬被指责是食品标准下降的原因。
• ADJ 小气的；吝啬的
  Penny-pinchingpeople spend as little money as possible.
  1. ...small-minded penny-pinching administrators.
     心胸狭隘、一毛不拔的管理者

英英释义

noun

• extreme care in spending money
  Synonym:parsimonyparsimoniousnessthrift

adj

• 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:cheeseparingclosenearskinny

双语例句

• I sympathise with your plight, being a penny-pinching wine duffer myself.
  我对你的处境深感同情，因为我本人也是一个锱铢必较的酒盲。
• He has an entrepreneur's obsession with costs, and relies on the kindness of powerful donors and old-fashioned penny-pinching to keep expenditure down.
  他对成本有着一种创业者式的执迷。他依靠有实力的捐赠人的爱心与老式的锱铢必较来压低成本。
• This latest outbreak of unseemly penny-pinching is symptomatic of a governmental tin ear when it comes to the armed forces.
  近期这一连串不体面的吝啬举动充分表明政府对军队漠不关心。
• This danger does not justify penny-pinching now: that could merely prompt a bigger collapse in economic activity and even larger deficits.
  高赤字风险并不说明节俭的政策就合理：那只会使经济更加崩溃，赤字甚至会更高。
• The stocks of several large tech companies have had a rough time in recent years, thanks to the penny-pinching in it budgets.
  由于各大公司缩减IT预算，许多大型科技公司的股票在近几年表现不佳。
• 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。
• We must strike a balance between reckless spending and penny-pinching.
  我们必须在挥霍和吝啬之间找到平衡点。
• That said, I have noticed at generic tastings in London that potential exporters have been told so often that the UK market is dangerously competitive, and British wine buyers horribly penny-pinching, that some tend not to bother to show their top wines.
  也就是说，我在伦敦通用品酒会上注意到潜在的出口商通常被告知英国市场竞争异常激烈，英国葡萄酒的买家抠门到极点，有些酒庄一般舍不得展出最好的酒。
• Good preventative health care means we cannot allow penny-pinching.
  良好的预防性保健意味着我们不能舍不得花钱。
• Penny-pinching chefs cook with waste oil from fryers and sewers, a toxic ingredient known as gutter oil that generally goes unnoticed until diners get sick.
  吝啬的厨师会用从油炸锅及下水道中回收的废油做菜，而这种名为地沟油的有毒原料通常不会被注意到，直到食用者患病。