These new rich, penny-pinching rulers would be obsessed with balancing the budget.

这些新富、吝啬的统治者会痴迷于平衡预算。

The Tories were the stingiest, promising just an additional 3bn pounds.

保守党是最吝啬的，承诺只增加30亿英镑。

But to build it, a weak and stingy state had to rely on brutality.

但是为了建立它，一个软弱而吝啬的国家不得不依靠残暴。

I'm putting my mother in the grave, now is not the time to pinch pennies.

是安葬，不是吝啬的时候。

The stingy old man won't give any money to charity.

那个吝啬的老头一毛钱也不会捐给慈善机构。

They went after those that gave too little and too much.

他选择让最吝啬和最慷的人离开。

He'll have a shirley temple. And don't be chintzy with the shirley.

给他秀兰·邓波尔（一种无酒精鸡尾酒） , 也别吝啬里面的果汁。

Maybe she was the stingiest woman.

也许她是世界上最吝啬的女人。”

Why should we drink to the health of a hateful, hard, unfeeling, mean old man like Scrooge? '

干嘛要祝一个像斯克罗吉那样可恨、刻薄、没有感情、吝啬的老头健康？”

Thou art always prating to me, Starbuck, about those miserly owners, as if the owners were my conscience.

你老是拿那些吝啬如命的船东和唠叨，好像船东就是的良心似的。

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

“把后事委托给二儿子安德鲁，”这位就要断气的吝啬鬼说，“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！希望你意识到了今天节目的主题是圣诞节善行！

Mean dogs are often used to guard this property. They bark or attack people who try to enter the property.

吝啬的狗经常守护着他的财产。如果有人试图接近他的财产，他会狂吠或者攻击人。

For much of the past decade, tech stocks have been an unattractive proposition to these parsimonious types.

过去10年的大部分时间里，科技股对这些吝啬的人来说一直是一个没有吸引力的投资对象。

Why had she not prevailed over her mother's fear of being " skimpy" ?

为什么她没有克服她母亲对“吝啬” 的恐惧呢？

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

可能会称这样的人为吝啬鬼。

That is the meaning of the adjective stingy.

这就是形容词吝啬的意思。

I wasn't going to be that cheap and eradicate all generosity.

不会那么吝啬并消除所有的慷。

And it's the reason why a lot of mean wear purses now.

这就是为什么有很多吝啬的人都戴钱包的原因。

And behind orchids’ wild variety of looks and behaviors are the same few stingy strategies.

兰花千姿百态的外表和行为背后， 同样是一些吝啬的策略。