Why is George called a penny pincher?

为什么把乔治叫作吝？

You could say somebody " Scrooged" it up.

你可以说这是遇上吝了。

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?

这个例子很好，尼尔！买订婚戒指时你不能做吝！那你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.

真正的吝不把钱浪费在这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，非常执着于免花钱的话，那么你可以说他们是小气或吝，但不要面说。

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，”这位就要断气的吝说，“我全部的不动产他败光的。”

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

哦，天啊。我或许是很暴躁，脾气不好，但是我不是吝。

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

让吝很不开心的一个结论是，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，你这个暴躁的老吝！我希望你意识到了我们今天节目的主题是圣诞节善行！

A penny pincher doesn't like spending money.

吝不喜欢花钱。

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

一个过去圣诞幽灵困扰的铁石心肠的吝。

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

在我家里，有吝也有挥霍者，还有介于两者之间的各种类型。

The folks call me a miser, my dear.

亲爱的，人们叫我吝。

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

所以，吝和节俭的是正面的；便宜的、吝的、小气的和手紧的是负面的。

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

所以就是那些时刻，哦天哪，我听起来像个十足的吝。

Does this annoy anyone else or am I a Scrooge?

这让其他人感到烦恼吗，还是说我是个吝？

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

我们似乎不想花一分钱，大家像是吝。

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，我们是金钱和财产的吝。

And yet you're not naturally a tightwad.

但你并不是天生的吝。