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

哎，可太多的公司都财奴。

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！没有经验的财奴会马上把你藏起来！

He grasped it, and looked at it as a greedy man looks at gold. Then he put it inside his shirt. He received similar gifts from other smiling seamen.

他抓过面包，象财奴瞅着金子般地瞅着它，然后把它塞到衬衫里面。咧着嘴笑的其它水手，也送给他同样的礼品。

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，斯克鲁奇就一不喜欢圣诞节的财奴。

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

没有哪财奴比她数钱数得更勤，也没有哪财奴比她更害怕失去这些钱。

Nobody hoards money quite like misers.

没有像财奴那样热衷于囤积钱财。

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

但你知道谁真正的财奴吗？来自英国伦敦的丹尼尔·丹瑟。

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

他一财奴，将来也永远。

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

我们正在讨论将一描述为“吝啬的”，即意味着小气、财奴式的。

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

然后财奴说：‘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.

他像财奴一样深深地爱着他们。 嫉妒，像情。

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一样，他有一种花钱的狂热，整星期都在与财奴的贪婪作斗争，唯一的目的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，关于那财奴，通过习惯，即使金钱只一种工具性价值，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.

詹姆斯继承了一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，但这位新国王可不财奴， 他挥霍无度地用于宫廷庆典和奖赏他的宠臣。

But if I was to say that you are a Scrooge, a Scrooge is someone who during the Christmas season, doesn't like giving gifts, doesn't like singing Christmas songs.

但如果我说你财奴，财奴就在圣诞节期间不喜欢送礼物， 不喜欢唱圣诞歌曲的。

Cindy says, " That's why you married a penny-pincher." The term " penny-pincher" refers to someone who doesn't like to spend money, who always is looking for the lowest price for something.

辛迪说：“这就为什么你娶了一财奴。 ” “财奴”指的那种不喜欢花钱、总寻找最低价格的。

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，就像财奴对找回的宝藏一样。

At the farther end were raspberry-bushes; at the other, near the house, an immense walnut-tree drooped its branches almost into the window of the miser's sanctum.

在另一端覆盆子丛；而在靠近房子的一端，一棵巨大的核桃树垂下了枝条，几乎伸到了财奴圣殿般的房间窗户前。

The canisters were almost out of her reach; I made a motion to aid her; she turned upon me as a miser might turn if anyone attempted to assist him in counting his gold.

她简够不到茶叶罐。我动了一动，想帮她一下。她猛地扭转身向我，像财奴看见别打算帮他数他的金子一样。

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

“哈哈哈，你想知道多少钱先，你这财奴”！