miserly 中文意思是什麼

音標 ['maizəli]
miserly 解釋
adj. 形容詞 吝嗇的；小氣的。

  1. Now, my uncle seemed so miserly that i was struck dumb by this sudden generosity.

    原來似乎是非常小氣的伯伯竟突然間慷慨起來，這倒一下子把我弄得目瞪口呆。
  2. Sheer necessity had made the poor girl so miserly that gtandet had come to feel the affection for her a man feels for his dog.

    可憐的姑娘因為一無所有，變得吝嗇不堪，終于使葛朗臺象喜歡一條狗一樣的喜歡她。
  3. Couple of a pair of landlords, famous ground is miserly

    一對地主夫婦，出名地吝嗇。
  4. A miserly father makes a prodigal son

    愛錢如命的父親生個兒子揮金如土
  5. Her father is very rich and miserly

    「他父親很富有，可也很吝嗇。
  6. " the pincher, " was his thought ; " too miserly to burn two cents worth of gas and save his boarders necks.

    「吝嗇鬼， 」他想， 「就捨不得花兩分錢煤氣點個燈，免得房客摔斷脖子。 」
  7. Low - flush toilets and miserly showerheads mandated in 1992 produced years of consumer grumbling and disobedience

    ；在92年採用的節水馬桶和噴頭的命令引起了數年後消費者的牢騷和抗命。
  8. When a very miserly man nicknamed the " stingy ghost " died and went to hell, the yama king reproached him, saying, " you stingy ghost ! when you were alive, you clung hard to everything and wouldn t give to anyone. even when you saw others in poverty and misery, you refused to offer them help

    有一個人很吝嗇，叫吝嗇鬼，他死了以後下地獄，閻羅王罵他說：你這個吝嗇鬼，在塵間的時候什麼東西都抓很緊不放，什麼人都不給，看到貧窮痛苦的人也不幫助，父母親戚朋友也沒有照顧好，讓他們都挨餓受苦，你這種兇惡的業障，應該被放入滾開的油鍋裏面。
  9. Her way of life was mean and miserly, but she did not know it. she thought she lived frugally in her middle years so that she could live in comfort and ease when she most needed peace of mind

    她的生活寒愴吝嗇，而她不自知。她以為她中年過的日子節儉，到她最需要安安逸逸不多操心的時候，她就能過得舒舒服服的。
  10. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society ; the greatest part of his life having been spent under the guidance of an illiterate and miserly father ; and though he belonged to one of the universities, he had merely kept the necessary terms, without forming at it any useful acquaintance

    柯林斯先生並不是個通情達理的人，他雖然也受過教育，也踏進了社會，但是先天的缺陷卻簡直沒有得到什麼彌補。他大部分日子是在他那守財奴的文盲父親的教導下度過的。他也算進過大學，實際上不過照例住了幾個學期，並沒有結交一個有用的朋友。
  11. The other said it showed how miserly the old buzzard was - getting other people to do what he could have done a thousand times over without feeling it a mite

    另一方則堅持這恰恰證明了這個自私的老傢伙有多麼吝嗇- -這種事情他一個人做再多遍也不過是九牛一毛，他卻要讓全鎮都參與進來。
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