misers

英 [ˈmaɪzəz]

美 [ˈmaɪzərz]

n.  吝啬鬼; 守财奴
miser的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 吝啬鬼;守财奴
  If you say that someone is amiser, you disapprove of them because they seem to hate spending money, and to spend as little as possible.
  1. I'm married to a miser.
     我嫁给了一个守财奴。

双语例句

• What we should do is to use it appropriately and not become misers.
  我们应该做的是用它的合理性，以及不会成为守财奴。
• Misers are no fun to live, but they make great ancestors.
  与吝啬鬼生活毫无乐趣，但他们却为后人称道不已。
• The Dutch are also disliked for being the biggest misers in Europe, and because of this they incur the wrath of the tourist industry wherever they travel.
  大家不喜欢荷兰人，还因为荷兰人是欧洲最著名的守财奴。因为这一点，无论他们去哪旅行，都不受待见。
• The city-resident spirit is strongly reflected by these misers.
  在这些吝啬者的身上，体现着强烈的市人精神。
• The Relation of Expression of Aquaporins in Human Fetal Membranes and Amniotic Fluid Volume Disorder; Misers hold no belief in a life beyond the grave, the present is all in all to them.
  水通道蛋白在胎膜中的基因表达与羊水平衡紊乱相关性研究凡是守财奴都只知道眼前，不相信来世。
• Every time I look at it I think of Balzac's misers and Zola's thieves and Colette's hardworking artistes and Flaubert's Francsic, risking everything on one throw of the dice.
  每当我看到它，就会想到巴尔扎克笔下的吝啬鬼，左拉笔下的小偷，科莱特笔下兢兢业业的艺人和福楼拜笔下的弗雷德里克，他们倾其所有，孤注一掷。
• Students tended to give less money to people described as "nasty misers" or "scrooges" and more to those depicted as "generous players" or "social players," Sommerfeld said.
  一个人到了越穷困的时候，对于金钱便越视为粪土，我常常奇怪一钱如命的守财奴，为什么要这样刻苦自己，半文钱也不肯花。
• Misers thrive on money and contempt.
  金钱和鄙薄，才是守财奴的养料。
• Most of us are, by nature, cognitive misers, a term coined by social psychologists Susan Fiske and Shelley Taylor to describe how people have a tendency to preserve cognitive resources and allocate them only to high-priority matters.
  天性使然，我们大部分人是认知的吝啬鬼，这一术语由社会心理学家SusanFiske和ShelleyTaylor创造，来描述人们如何倾向于保存认知资源并仅仅分配于高优先级的事情。
• Misers put their back and their belly into their pockets.
  守财奴爱财如命，宁可饿肚皮，没衣穿。