stingy

stingy，英語單詞，主要用作形容詞，作形容詞時譯為“吝嗇的，小氣的；有刺的；缺乏的”。

基本介紹

• 外文名：stingy
• 詞性：形容詞
• 英式發音：[ˈstɪndʒi]
• 美式發音：[ˈstɪndʒi]

單詞用法

柯林斯英漢雙解大詞典

stingy /ˈstɪndʒɪ/ ( stingier, stingiest )

stingy /ˈstɪŋɪ/

1.ADJ If you describe someone as stingy, you are criticizing them for being unwilling to spend money. 吝嗇的 [非正式]

1.ADJ stinging or capable of stinging 有刺的; 刺人的 [非正式]

短語搭配

Stingy person 鐵公雞 ; 小氣的人

be stingy 吝惜 ; 分斤搿兩

Stingy Mammon 小氣大財神

stingy y 吝嗇的

stingy ghosts 小氣鬼的

stingy bastard 小氣鬼

Stingy ghost 摳門鬼 ; 小氣鬼

stingy employer 吝嗇的僱主

Stingy Extremely 小氣至極

雙語例句

• 1Don't be so stingy!不要那么吝嗇！《新英漢大辭典》
• 2The West is stingy with aid.西方在援助上很吝嗇。《柯林斯英漢雙解大詞典》
• 3Matt was very stingy and hated spending money.麥特很吝嗇，討厭花錢。
• 4The days of Chelsea's stingy defence are long gone.切爾西密不透風的防守一去不復返。
• 5Out of fatigue and exhaustion, I shouted him stingy words.忘記了疲倦和筋疲力盡，我對他大聲喊罵。
• 6At home, if you are stingy, you can spend $2 on a tasty lunch.在家裡，如果你很吝嗇，你只花2美元就可以享受一份美味的午餐了。
• 7People whose houses face demolition complain about stingy compensation.那些可能面臨房屋拆遷問題的人就抱怨補償金太少。
• 8The second News Corporation is strategic and hard-nosed, bordering on stingy.第二個新聞集團講究戰略、注重實際，近乎吝嗇。
• 9Scientists have pinpointed a stretch of DNA that makes people stingy with their cash.科學家已經精確地定位了一段DNA，這段DNA使得人們對他們的金錢很吝嗇。
• 10Encouragement also needs to be regular - don't be stingy with your encouragement.也需要經常鼓勵他人，不要吝惜。
• 11On this stingy substitute rain, the behemoth of all living things, the redwood, thrives.在這些吝嗇的雨水替代物的滋養下，萬物茁壯生長。
• 12But in a market as stingy as the one we've endured since 2000, below-average results really hurt.然而如果遇到像2000年那么低迷的股市，我想低於平均水平的結果的確十分令人痛心。
• 13There once was a beggar, and in his home town there lived a millionaire. But that person was very, very stingy!從前有個乞丐，在他的鎮上住著一位很有錢的富翁，但是這個富翁非常、非常吝嗇，他把所有的財物都鎖在柜子里，或挖地洞藏起來，沒有人知道藏在哪裡，甚至連他自己也搞不清楚 ，這樣他就不會把它花掉！
• 14Denise knows she might sound almost pathologically stingy, but the Winstons have saved enough money to buy a plane.丹尼斯知道她可能聽起來近乎病態的吝嗇，但是溫斯頓夫婦卻攢了足夠的錢買一架飛機。
• 15Corporations have been stingy on upgrading their workers' personal computers, a trend Intel is now seeing reverse.企業一直吝於升級其雇員的個人計算機(PC)，英特爾正在看到一種改變的趨勢。
• 16They should be kind enough to mentor younger scientists, but stingy enough with their time to be able to manage it well.他們應該友好地指導年輕的科學家，但對自己的時間足夠吝嗇，以便管理好時間。
• 17Dr Bell confirmed that pups made more noise with generous carers, and less with carers that were stingy or likely to be so.他發現幼崽會跟大方的看護者吵鬧得厲害，而很少去找小氣的看護者或者有可能小氣的看護者。
• 18The Numbers represent a sharp turnaround for a program that many companies had complained was too stingy with its visas.這些數字表明，該簽證項目出現極大轉變。而以前很多公司還抱怨，簽證難求。
• 19Because being mean could be in their genes. Scientists have pinpointed a stretch of DNA that makes people stingy with their cash.因為為人吝嗇可能是由他們的基因決定的。科學家已經精確地定位了一段DNA，這段DNA使得人們對他們的金錢很吝嗇。
• 20Universities have been told to cut back too, with already-stingy plans to cover 15,000 extra undergraduate places cut to just 10,000.大學也被通知要削減人員，計畫額外招收1.5萬名大學生的數目已經很少了，但還是要縮減到1萬名。
• 21Universities have been told to cut back too, with already-stingy plans to cover 15, 000 extra undergraduate places cut to just 10, 000.大學也被通知要削減人員，計畫額外招收1.5萬名大學生的數目已經很少了，但還是要縮減到1萬名。
• 22Siyu had wished to be a companion for Professor Dai in her old age, and her wish would now be granted, an unexpected gift from a stingy life.思玉曾希望在戴教授老年時成為她的一個伴，現在她的希望實現了，這是在她並不豐足的人生中得到的意想不到的禮物。
• 23Unlike stingy private-sector publishers these days, they have indulged in such rarities as a proper index, footnotes, bibliography and colour plates.和現在的吝嗇的私有出版社不同，英國國家圖書館力求在這些稀有物件如正確的圖示，腳註，自傳以及彩色版上做到最好。
• 24According to Mr Truex, a rich man should choose his bride from a country with a stingy divorce law, such as Sweden or France, and marry her there.特魯克斯認為，富人娶妻要到離婚法不太完備的國家去找，比如瑞典或法國，並且就在那裡成婚。