Alas, many firms are already sitting on cash they seem unwilling to spend.

哎，可是太多的公司都是守财。

But you know who was real? One Daniel Dancer of London, England.

但你道谁是真正的守财吗？来自英国伦敦的丹尼尔·丹瑟。

Oh, the gold! the precious, precious gold! —the green miser'll hoard ye soon!

啊，金币！珍贵的，珍贵的金币！没有经验的守财会马上把你藏起来！

Nobody hoards money quite like misers.

没有人守财那样热衷于囤积钱财。

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

没有哪个守财比她数钱数得勤，也没有哪个守财比她害怕失去这些钱。

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，斯克鲁奇就是一个不喜欢圣诞节的血守财。

So we would call that person a Scrooge.

所以我们会称那个人为守财。

He's always been a penny-pincher and he always will be.

一直是个守财，将来也永远是。

We're talking about when you describe a person as cheap, which means stingy, miserly.

我们正在讨论将一个人描述为“吝啬的”，即意味着小气、守财式的。

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

守财一样深深地爱着们。 嫉妒，情人。

Man's case is always that of the prodigal's favourite or the miser's pensioner.

人的情况总是浪子的最爱或守财的养老金领取者。

Salvador says to Britney, " Francke has always been a penny-pincher and he always will be."

萨尔瓦多对布里特妮说：“弗兰克一直是个守财， 以后也永远是。

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

然后守财说：‘快把我绑起来， 快绑住我，看在怜悯的份上’。

Like all misers, he was a jealous man, and his jealousy became a frantic mania.

所有守财一样， 是个嫉妒的人， 的嫉妒变成了疯狂的狂热。

" Ha ha ha, you want to know how much it is first, you old miser" !

“哈哈哈，你想道多少钱先，你这个守财”！

He has the local repute of being a miser as well as a harsh and exacting husband.

在当地享有守财的名声以及一个苛刻苛刻的丈夫。

Hagrid launched himself forward on top of the scrooge that was cornering Harry and Ron, and flattened it.

海格向前跳到那个逼到哈利和罗恩身边的守财身上，把它压平了。

The pasture of misers is compounded of money and disdain.

守财的牧场由金钱和鄙视构成。

It was soon apparent to me that my companion's reputation as a miser was not undeserved.

我很快就明白， 我的同伴守财的名声并非没有道理。

This lamb it is which the miser fattens, puts in his fold, slaughters, cooks, eats, and then despises.

这只羊就是守财养肥、关进羊圈、宰杀、烹煮、食用后又鄙视的那只。