查询词典 penny-wise

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。

If you say someone is penny-pinching, you mean thatthey don't want to spend money on things.

Penny-pinching 的意思啊，就是说一个人特别小气，不愿意花钱。

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。

Nowadays, most of research are to build a transmutative Petri Nets through adding controlling place sets, controlling arc sets and controlling policy to the basic Petri Nets, while the Controlled Petri Nets could be used to argue many controlling theory problems conveniently and to induce many logically and physically supervisory and solve the Event Feedback Controlling Problems and State Feedback Controlling Problem in DEDS supervisory theory.

目前大多数的研究表现为在变形后的受控Petri网基础上，利用各种方法求得各种逻辑型、结构型控制器，解决DEDS监控理论中的事件反馈控制问题与状态反馈控制问题。

On one hand, there are discussions with the works council and union about extension of short time working up to the end of September.

一方面，有讨论，工程理事会和联盟关于延长工作时间短至9月底。