These new rich, penny-pinching rulers would be obsessed with balancing the budget.

这些新富、吝啬的统治者痴迷于算。

I'm putting my mother in the grave, now is not the time to pinch pennies.

我是在安葬我妈妈，现在不是吝啬的时候。

The stingy old man won't give any money to charity.

那个吝啬的老头一毛钱也不捐给慈善机构。

The Tories were the stingiest, promising just an additional 3bn pounds.

保守党是最吝啬的，承诺只增加30亿英镑。

Maybe she was the stingiest woman.

也许她是世界上最吝啬的女人。”

But to build it, a weak and stingy state had to rely on brutality.

但是为了建立它，一个软弱而吝啬的国家不得不依靠残暴。

Why should we drink to the health of a hateful, hard, unfeeling, mean old man like Scrooge? '

我们干嘛要祝一个像斯克罗吉那样可恨、刻薄、没有感情、吝啬的老头健康？”

That is the meaning of the adjective stingy.

这就是形容词吝啬的意思。

He'll have a shirley temple. And don't be chintzy with the shirley.

给他秀兰·邓波尔（一种无酒精鸡尾酒） , 也别吝啬里面的果汁。

The tulip and the chestnut gave no sense of struggle against a stingy nature.

郁金香和栗子没有对抗吝啬的天性的感觉。

Mean dogs are often used to guard this property. They bark or attack people who try to enter the property.

吝啬的狗经常守护着他的财产。如果有人试图接近他们的财产，他或者攻击人。

It is like some penurious patrician who has sunk into the company of his inferiors.

这就像某个吝啬的贵族融入了下属的行列。

You know, you have a miserly social service network.

你知道，你有一个吝啬的社服务网络。

Many years ago a stingy old merchant in Boston lay dying.

许多年前，波士顿一位吝啬的老商人病危。

And it's the reason why a lot of mean wear purses now.

这就是为什么现在有很多吝啬的人都戴钱包的原因。

He had no miserly instinct but he had one overpowering ambition.

他没有吝啬的本能， 但他有一个压倒性的野心。

And behind orchids’ wild variety of looks and behaviors are the same few stingy strategies.

在兰花千姿百态的外表和行为背后， 同样是一些吝啬的策略。

But in practice miserly new national rules and auction designs make doing so difficult.

但在实践中，吝啬的新国家规则和拍卖设计让这样做变得困难。

His devotion to engineering was unstinting, romantic, and idealistic.

他对工程的热爱是毫不吝啬的、浪漫的、理想主义的。

Thou art always prating to me, Starbuck, about those miserly owners, as if the owners were my conscience.

你老是拿那些吝啬如命的船东和我唠叨，好像船东就是我的良心似的。