小气

With a narrow vision and a petty mind, Singaporeans would become a small people, lacking the easy manner and liberal spirit that befit a great country.

眼界小了，心胸小了，人也就自然变得小里小气，少了一种大家的气度和风度。

The primary conclusions are made in this paper.(1) The air bearing has lower natural frequencies in thicker air film.

计算结果表明：系统在小气膜厚度和低磁盘转速下能达到较好的稳定性。

At the stroke of a pen, he removed thousands of people from the welfare system.

汤姆是个非常小气的人，他大笔一挥，就把成千上万的人排除在福利制度之外。

This word that chamberlain gives doorknob Yuan Zongkui says to listen to everybody, one city person manages this in jest Matthew is persnickety, regard the joke of at one's leisure as this his word.

管家出门把元宗逵的这番话说给大家听，一州人都在笑话这位司马太小气，都把他的这番话作为茶余饭后的笑料。

I really don't like the guy who is not only stingy but likes to bad-mouth others.

我真的不喜欢那个小气又爱说别人坏话的家伙。

If I were President of the United States, I would not like the current President of the United States as stingy, greedy, oil rich Iraq will not be bent on account of his own there.

假如我是美国总统，我不会像现在的美国总统那样小气、贪婪，不会因为伊拉克富有油就一心想着占为己有。

In those days he lived in the clerk's house, and was to have everything in the house-to be at free quarters, as the saying is; but he was still, so to speak, a fine young gentleman. He wanted to have his boots cleaned with patent blacking, and the clerk could only afford ordinary GREase; and upon that point they split.

那时他住在牧师的家里，一切全是免费的；他要上光鞋油打整他的靴子，但是牧师只给他用油脂调的黑色涂料，为了这个，他们之间产生了隔阂；一个说另一个小气，另一个说这一个虚荣，黑色涂料成了敌意的黑色缘由，於是两人分手了。

Oh, no, my dad is driving me bonkers. He is such a tightwad!

噢，我老爸快把我逼疯了，他太小气了！

It is also a myth, the authors show, that donors always give less than they promise: they are both capriciously generous, as well as capriciously stingy.

文章显示捐赠堪比神话，因为拿到的钱总是比允诺中的数目要小：他们既小气又大方，而这些都和天气一样变幻无常。

So, a successful stationmaster does not want so mother-in-law Mom, want to have bit of courage and insight, persnickety stationmaster just develops the persnickety website in certain level forever.

所以，一个成功的站长不要那么婆妈，要有点胆识，小气的站长永远只是发展在一定程度的小气网站。

With Death guitarist Schuldiner adopting vocal duties, the band made a major impact on the scene.

随着死亡的吉他手Schuldiner接受主唱的职务，乐队在现实中树立了重要的影响。

But he could still end up breakfasting on Swiss-government issue muesli because all six are accused of nicking around 45 million pounds they should have paid to FIFA.

不过他最后仍有可能沦为瑞士政府&议事餐桌&上的一道早餐，因为这所有六个人都被指控把本应支付给国际足联的大约4500万英镑骗了个精光。