stingy
stingy 英 [ˈstɪndʒi] 美 [ˈstɪndʒi]
adj. 吝啬的，小气的
名词复数:stingies
- If you are looking to describe someone with a Scrooge- or Grinch-like tendency to pinch his pennies, then stingy can be your adjective of choice. Or, if you are looking to describe something you have too little of — like a 43-second coffee break — you can use stingy as well.
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- adj. 吝啬的，小气的
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1. You're stingy!
你真小气！
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2. Don't be so stingy with the cream!
别那么舍不得放奶油！
- stingy (adj.) "niggardly, penurious, extremely tight-fisted," 1650s, of uncertain origin, perhaps a dialectal alteration of earlier stingy "biting, sharp, stinging" (1610s), from sting (v.). Back-formation stinge "a stingy person" is recorded from 1905. Related: Stingily; stinginess.
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