tightwad

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But the distinction is lost on me. I'm thrifty because I'm a tightwad and vice versa.
但这种区分对我来说毫无意义，我节俭因为我是个吝啬鬼，反过来说我是个吝啬鬼所以我节俭。
"The nightmares for a tightwad are sushi by the piece or a taxi where you have to watch the meter running, " Loewenstein says.
Loewenstein说：“对于一个吝啬鬼而言，噩梦可能就是看到寿司涨价或者打车的时候看到计价器在飞涨”。
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?
还记得那些穿着宽短裤的吝啬鬼，经常抱怨和叫嚷着为什么没有可以讲英语的当地人而得名“来自地狱”的丑陋的美国人吗？

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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