tightwad
英 ['taɪtwɒd]
美['taɪtwɑd]
- n. 吝啬鬼；守财奴
英英释义
- 1. a miserly person
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- Bill's too much of a tightwad to ever eat there.
- 比尔太吝啬了,以至于(他)决不可能在那儿用餐.
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- He is such a tightwad.
- 他是个吝啬鬼.
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- You can never make a tightwad spend his money freely.
- 你不可能动到他的钱,因为他很小气.
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- She's such a tightwad.
- 她真是个小气鬼.
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- If you a tightwad, you might feel a need to loosen and have a little fun.
- 如果你花钱精打细算, 可能也觉得需要放松一下,增添点乐趣.
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- Oh , no, my dad is driving me bonkers , too. He is such a tightwad!
- 什么? 你父亲是什么?
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- What day is today? Why would a tightwad like you insist on paying?
- 今天是什么日子 啊 ?你这个铁公鸡怎么会抢着付钱 呢 ?
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- I hope that when I have kids I won't be such a tightwad.
- 其实,作父母的也不容易,要养家,要供孩子读书,花销很大啊.
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- Absolutely not! He's a real tightwad!
- 绝对不会! 他是真正的小气鬼!
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- If you're a tightwad, you might feel a to loosen up and have a little fun.
- 假如你花钱精打细算, 可能也觉得需要放松一下,增添点乐趣.
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- Europe's biggest tightwad is, in fact, France.
- 欧洲最吝啬的其实是法国.
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- He is a tightwad because he doesn't like to spend money on anything.
- 噢,tightwad就是小气,不肯花钱.
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中文词源
tightwad 吝啬鬼
tight,拉紧的，手握紧的，wad,沓，俚语义钱。
双语例句
- 1. He is a tightwad because he doesn't like to spend money on anything.
- 噢,tightwad就是小气,不肯花钱.
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- 2. Bill's too much of a tightwad to ever eat there.
- 比尔太吝啬了,以至于(他)决不可能在那儿用餐.
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- 3. You can never make a tightwad spend his money freely.
- 你不可能动到他的钱,因为他很小气.
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- 4. What is the difference between a tightwad's brain and a spendthrift's brain?
- 吝啬鬼的脑袋和挥霍者的脑袋有什么区别 呢 ?
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- 5. What is the difference between tightwad's brain and a spendthrift's brain?
- 吝啬鬼的大脑和挥霍者的大脑有什么差异?
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英文词源
- tightwad (n.)
- "parsimonious person," 1900, from tight in the figurative sense of "close-fisted" (1805) + wad (n.). The notions of stringency and avarice also combine in Modern Greek sphiktos "greedy," literally "tight."