stingy
stingy 英 [ˈstɪndʒi] 美 [ˈstɪndʒi]
adj. 吝啬的，小气的；有刺的；缺乏的
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；有刺的；缺乏的
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1. Don't be so stingy!
不要那么吝啬！
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2. If she has a spending problem, then you need to work on it together, and if you’re too stingy with your money and you never have fun with it, then you also to work on that and loosen up.
如果她有爱花钱的毛病，那么你们应该共同解决这个问题，如果你在钱方面过于小气，你就永远也享受不到花钱的乐趣，你依然会致力于此并且放松下来。
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3. In a follow-up study the same participants repeated the game with the same stingy but remorseful partners, this time getting to choose how much of the initial €10 to transfer.
在一项后续研究中，同一批参与者与原先吝啬却感到懊悔的搭档一起重复了这个游戏，并选择将最初的10英镑转让多少。
- 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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