贰靶汉英词典

pinchpennies

P 开头单词

基本解释

  • adj.吝嗇的

同根派生

     

英汉例句

  • If saving is a sin, dissaving must be a virtue; and in any case he is simply making up for the harm being done by the saving of his pinchpenny brother Benjamin.
    如果儲蓄是一種罪過，不儲蓄儅然就是一種美德；而且，無論如何，他這麽做不過是爲了補償吝嗇鬼弟弟本傑明由於儲蓄給社會帶來的種種損害。
  • and in any case he is simply making up for the harm being done by the saving of his pinchpenny brother Benjamin.
    而且，無論如何，他這麽做不過是爲了補償吝嗇鬼弟弟本傑明由於儲蓄給社會帶來的種種損害。
  • a pinchpenny economy.
    經濟拮據