小气

Everybody knows she is close with money.

大家都知道她花钱很小气.

He would not offer a churlish roof to his visitors.

他十分小气,连住宿都不愿给来访者安排.

It is small of you to say so.

你这样说未免太小气了.

Joey, you talk as if I begrudged it to you.

乔艾, 你这话竟象是我小气,舍不得给你似的.

Officials say the EU, which is supposed to provide most of the food needs, is being particularly niggardly.

官员们说应该提供所需的大部分食品的欧盟现在特别小气。

I don't want to seem niggardly.

我不愿让人家认为我很小气.

He's too perishing mean to pay his share.

他小气极了,连自己的那份钱也不付.

Without wanting to sound mean about it, these things all have to come from a budget.

我并不想显得小气，但所有这些东西都必须从预算中开支。

He wouldn't even lend me ten pence; how mean can you get?

他连十便士都不肯借给我, 你看他有多小气?

Winston was not a stingy man.

温斯顿不是个小气之人。

They wouldn't be so stingy about it.

他们对它不会那么小气了.

It is strange that such a rich man should be so stingy.

说来真怪,这么有钱的人居然那么小气.

What about getting new ones — Are you so tight you won't even spend three roubles?

买些新的怎样——你就小气到连3个卢布也不肯掏吗？

He's too mean to make a donation.

他很小气,不肯捐款.

Richard's too mean for me to hire a car.

理查德太小气,连个车都不叫我雇.