I know that's right. The way he talks about going to Zalem and misers his credit chips.

肯定是为了“那”，他总是说要去萨雷姆，正在努力地赚钱。

Are you a rich miser or something?

你是神秘大富豪吗？

They are cognitive misers, they are capable of intelligent reasoning but they don't apply that brain power effectively, instead relying too much on their gut feelings.

他们是认知吝啬者，他们有能力进行聪明的推理，但他们没有有效地运用脑力，而是过于依赖直觉。

I was too tired and miser able to speak, so I silently gave him the letter, and sat down to eat the porridge.

我因太劳累、太难受而什么话也说不出来，于是我默默地把信交给他并坐下来喝粥。

Now back to A Christmas Carol. At the beginning of the story, Scrooge is a cold-hearted miser who hates Christmas.

现在回到《圣诞颂歌》这部作品。在故事伊始，斯克鲁奇就是不喜欢圣诞节的冷血守财奴。

No miser ever counted his gold oftener than she and no miser ever had greater fear of losing it.

没有哪守财奴比她数钱数得更勤，也没有哪守财奴比她更害怕失去这些钱。

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他败光的。”

Nobody hoards money quite like misers.

没有人像守财奴那样热衷于囤积钱财。

But these guys aren't the most miserly misers out there, not by a long shot.

但这些角色并不是最吝啬的，远远不是。

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。

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

过去圣诞幽灵困扰的铁石心肠的吝啬鬼。

The folks call me a miser, my dear.

亲爱的，人们都叫我吝啬鬼。

Then the miser said, 'Bind me fast, bind me fast, for pity's sake'.

然后守财奴说：‘快把我绑起来， 快绑住我，看在怜悯的份上’。

He loved them intensely, like a miser; jealously, like a lover.

他像守财奴样深深地爱着他们。 嫉妒，像情人。

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，我们都是金钱和财产的吝啬鬼。

Like all young men in the drapery line, he had a mania for spending, battling throughout the week with a miser's greediness, with the sole object of squandering his money on Sundays on the race-courses or in the restaurants and dancing-saloons.

像所有从事窗帘行业的年轻人样，他有种花钱的狂热，整星期都在与守财奴的贪婪作斗争，唯的目的是在星期天把钱花在赛马场、餐馆和舞厅里。

Because he does give this example several times about the miser who, through habit, even though money is only an instrumental good, It becomes an end in itself because they're just so used to pursuing that, that it becomes.

因为他确实多次举了这例子，关于那守财奴，通过习惯，即使金钱只是种工具性价值，却变成了目的本身，因为他们太过习惯于追求金钱，以至于它成为了他们的终极目标。

James had inherited a healthy treasury in England owing to the notorious parsimony of Queen Elizabeth, but the new king was no miser and he spent lavishly on court festivities and on rewarding his court favourites.

詹姆斯继承了财政状况良好的英格兰国库， 这得益于伊丽莎白女王着名的吝啬，但这位新国王可不是守财奴， 他挥霍无度地用于宫廷庆典和奖赏他的宠臣。

Mrs. March would not leave Beth's side, but rested in the big chair, waking often to look at, touch, and brood over her child, like a miser over some recovered treasure.

马奇太太不愿离开贝丝身边，而是坐在大椅子上休息，经常醒来看着、抚摸和关心她的孩子，就像守财奴对找回的宝藏样。

Fred felt that he made a wretched figure as a fellow who bragged about expectations from a queer old miser like Featherstone, and went to beg for certificates at his bidding.

弗雷德觉得自己成了可怜的人， 因为他吹嘘像费瑟斯通这样古怪的老吝啬鬼的期望， 并按照他的吩咐去乞求证书。