skinflints

skinflints

美 [ˈskɪnˌflɪnt] 　英 ['skɪn.flɪnt]

• na.吝啬鬼
• 网络小气鬼；守财奴；吝啬的人

词形变化

复数：skinflints  

英汉解释

na.	1. 〈美〉小气鬼,吝啬鬼

英英解释

n.	1. someone who does not like to spend or give money

例句

Those women continued, however, to be skinflints, and the men remained callously indifferent to those less fortunate than themselves.

不过这些女性继续做着吝啬鬼，而男性则依然对那些没有他们富裕的人冷漠无情。

Many in Washington are cross: their defence planners face hard choices, too. Why spend money protecting ungrateful, stay-at-home skinflints?

华盛顿一方则十分愤怒：他们的防御规划者面临也面临艰难选择：为什么要花钱保护忘恩负义、龟缩不出的小气鬼们呢？

Making your own decorations may once have been the preserve of skinflints and eccentrics, but not any more.

自己做装饰品曾被认为是吝啬鬼和怪人的专利，但是现在不是了。

Some dispute the notion that economists tend to be skinflints.

也有人不同意经济学家都是铁公鸡的说法。

Why spend money protecting ungrateful, stay-at-home skinflints?

为什么要花钱保护国内不知感恩一毛不拔的吝啬鬼呢？

A version that uses cheaper lead-acid ones, which manages half of that, is also available for real skinflints.

对于吝啬鬼来说，它也可以选择使用铅酸电池的车子，可行驶路程则只有前者的一半。

Today's skinflints may do the same.

今天这些吝啬鬼可能也在这样做。