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.

你可以说这是遇上吝啬鬼了。

No true miser would waste their wealth on such frills.

真正的吝啬鬼不会把钱浪费在这些华而不实的东西上。

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是，当人们有足够大的空间时，轮流工位的效果才最好。

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

哦，啊。我或许是很暴躁，脾气不好，但是我不是吝啬鬼。

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，”这位就要断气的吝啬鬼说，“我全部的不动产都会被他败光的。”

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

哦，尼尔，你这个暴躁的老吝啬鬼！我希望你意识到了我们目的主题是圣诞善行！

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。

A penny pincher is someone who likes to save money.

吝啬鬼是喜欢省钱的人。

I might call a person like that, a penny pincher.

我可能会称这样的人为吝啬鬼。

By the time I'm finished, I'm exhausted and I feel like Scrooge.

等我忙完，我已经累垮了，感觉自己像个吝啬鬼。

Now a spendthrift and a penny pincher are both somewhat negative expressions to describe someone.

现在，“挥霍者”和“吝啬鬼”这两个词都是用来形容某人时带有一定贬义色彩的表达。

The folks call me a miser, my dear.

亲爱的，人们都叫我吝啬鬼。

I wouldn't exactly call her a cheapskate, but she's not known for her generosity.

我不会说她是个吝啬鬼，但她也不以慷慨着称。

So, you can use the word " penny-pincher" .

所以，你可以使用“吝啬鬼”这个词。

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

所以就是那些时刻，哦哪，我听起来像个十足的吝啬鬼。

Does this annoy anyone else or am I a Scrooge?

这会让其他人感到烦恼吗，还是说我是个吝啬鬼？

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，大家都像是吝啬鬼。

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

塞涅卡写道，在短暂的人中，我们都是金钱和财产的吝啬鬼。