tightwad

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But the distinction is lost on me. I'm thrifty because I'm a tightwad and vice versa.
但這種區(qū)分對我來說毫無意義，我節(jié)儉因爲(wèi)我是個吝嗇鬼，反過來說我是個吝嗇鬼所以我節(jié)儉。
"The nightmares for a tightwad are sushi by the piece or a taxi where you have to watch the meter running, " Loewenstein says.
Loewenstein說：“對於一個吝嗇鬼而言，噩夢可能就是看到壽司漲價或者打車的時候看到計價器在飛漲”。
Remember the tightwad tourist whose baggy shorts, frequent complaining and shouted questions about why none of the locals spoke any English made the ugly American the world's Visitor from Hell?
還記得那些穿著寬短褲的吝嗇鬼，經(jīng)常抱怨和叫嚷著爲(wèi)什麼沒有可以講英語的儅地人而得名“來自地獄”的醜陋的美國人嗎？

The uneasy coexistence of new wealth and old tightwad populism produces some curious contrasts.
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Focused on fighting a war, Bush — never a tightwad to begin with — handed the keys to the Treasury to Tom DeLay and Denny Hastert, and they spent enough money to burn a wet mule.
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