查询词典 penny-wise

I hope I can be taller.10. I don't like to spend money on useless things, some of my friends say I am penny-pinching.

我不喜欢花钱买无用的东西，有的朋友说我小气。

She is too penny-pinching to buy a raffle ticket.

她这个人真小气，连一张彩票也不卖。

This is expensive and painful, but cautious, penny-pinching governments end up paying more than those that tread boldly.

虽然这样所为昂贵而沉痛，但那些谨慎、吝啬的政府最终所花费要比大胆行事的政府要多。

He has an entrepreneur's obsession with costs, and relies on the kindness of powerful donors and old-fashioned penny-pinching to keep expenditure down.

他对成本有着一种创业者式的执迷。他依靠有实力的捐赠人的爱心与老式的锱铢必较来压低成本。

Private-label goods tend to cost about a quarter less than branded ones, and so appeal to penny-pinching consumers.

自有品牌产品价格一般比驰名品牌产品的低1/4，因此更受精明的消费者的欢迎。

It is also a nice illustration of the risks of penny-pinching when building infrastructure.

同样，这座桥完美敲响警钟：基础设施建设若是斤斤计较，风险将难以估量。

Unwilling to give or spend money; penny-pinching.

吝啬的，过分节俭的不情愿给钱或花钱的；过分吝啬的

I've had to ponder the times when my penny-pinching irritated my family or when I denied myself some small pleasure because it wasn't the cheapest choice.

有时候，自己的锱铢必较让家人生气；有时候，因为想买的东西不是最便宜的，我不得不忍痛放弃。

And life insurers struggle to sell policies when people are penny-pinching .

而对寿险公司而言，当人们变得吝啬的时候，销售保单就需要几经努力了。

This dimension of performance has until recently sufficed as a basis of evaluation, but it has created a penny-pinching, mechanistic culture in most factories that has kept away creative managers.

直到最近这一表现的范围才足够用做评价的基础，但还是非常微小，众多工厂的机械性的文化赶走了创意的经理。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷