Why is George called a penny pincher?

为什么把乔治叫作吝啬鬼？

You could say somebody " Scrooged" it up.

你可以遇上吝啬鬼了。

Nice example, Neil! You can't be a cheapskate when it comes to engagement rings! So how much would you spend on our engagement ring, Neil?

个例子很好，尼尔！买订婚戒指时你不能做吝啬鬼！那你会花多少钱为我们买订婚戒指呢，尼尔？

No true miser would waste their wealth on such frills.

真正的吝啬鬼不会把钱浪费在些华而不实的东西上。

If someone is stingy with their money or maybe they're quite obsessive about avoiding to spend money, then you could call them a cheapskate or a tight arse, but don't say it to their face.

如果有人对钱很吝啬，非常执着于免花钱的话，那么你可以他们小鬼或吝啬鬼，但不当面。

The house was empty, and here I sat in a musty, dark living room on a beautiful sunny Hawaiian day, waiting to talk to a cheapskate who exploited children.

一个小时过去了，那天阳光灿烂，我却坐在阴暗、发霉的客厅里，等待着和一个剥削童工的吝啬鬼谈判。

I leave my second son, Andrew, said the expiring miser, my whole estate, and desire him to be frugal.

“我把后事委托给二儿子安德鲁，”位就的吝啬鬼，“我全部的不动产都会被他败光的。”

Oh dear. I might be grumpy – and that means bad-tempered – but I'm not a scrooge!

哦，天啊。我或许很暴躁，脾不好，但我不吝啬鬼。

For penny-pinchers, the unpalatable conclusion is that hot-desking works best when people have lots of space.

让吝啬鬼很不开心的一个结论，当人们有足够大的空间时，轮流工位的效果才最好。

Oh, Neil, you grumpy old Scrooge! And I hope you realise that the subject of today's show is Christmas kindness!

哦，尼尔，你个暴躁的老吝啬鬼！我希望你意识到了我们今天节目的主题圣诞节善行！

A penny pincher doesn't like spending money.

吝啬鬼不喜欢花钱。

The stone-hearted miser plagued by the ghost of Christmas past.

一个被过去圣诞幽灵困扰的铁石心肠的吝啬鬼。

In my family, there are penny pinchers and spendthrifts and everything in between.

在我家里，有吝啬鬼也有挥霍者，还有介于两者之间的各种类型。

The folks call me a miser, my dear.

亲爱的，人们都叫我吝啬鬼。

So, penny-pincher and frugal are positive; cheap, tight, stingy, and close-fisted are negative.

所以，吝啬鬼和节俭的正面的；便宜的、吝啬的、小的和手紧的负面的。

So it's those moments Oh gosh, I sound like such a grinch.

所以就那些时刻，哦天哪，我听起来像个十足的吝啬鬼。

Does this annoy anyone else or am I a Scrooge?

会让其他人感到烦恼吗，还我个吝啬鬼？

We don't want to pay anything because we're all just like cheapskates, it seems like.

我们似乎都不想花一分钱，大家都像吝啬鬼。

We are all misers about money and property, Seneca writes, in the shortness of life.

塞涅卡写道，在短暂的人生中，我们都金钱和财产的吝啬鬼。

And yet you're not naturally a tightwad.

但你并不天生的吝啬鬼。