miserliness
基本解釋
- n.吝嗇;貪婪
英漢例句
- Nearly a third said that fiddling expenses was acceptable, for example because of below-inflation pay rises and other miserliness by employers.
有將近三分之一的人稱(chēng)虛報(bào)開(kāi)支是可以接受的,比如出于雇主加薪低于通貨膨脹率和其它貪婪的行為。 - The Delta's problems do not stem from the federal government's miserliness towards local people, as is often claimed, but from the theft of the funds it sends the region.
三角洲的問(wèn)題并不像所說(shuō)的那樣是根源于聯(lián)邦政府對(duì)本地居民的吝嗇,而是根源于政府對(duì)該地區(qū)發(fā)放的救濟(jì)資金遭到盜竊。 - But his miserliness was offset by a generosity toward the victims of the systems he despised.
他的吝嗇卻由于他向著所輕視體制中受害人的慷慨所彌補(bǔ)。 - In many cases the problem does not seem to be miserliness so much as ignorance.
ECONOMIST: Philanthropy