stinginess
基本解释
- n.刺骨(刺；吝嗇；缺乏)
英汉例句
- Up-and-coming South Korea might be expected to be a bit mean, but the stinginess of Switzerland is unexpected.
作爲後起之秀的韓國表現的吝嗇是可以理解的，但是瑞士的小氣卻讓人出乎意料。 - So how are all our basic needs and behaviors—hunger and gluttony and frugality and charity and stinginess—connected in the brain?
我們基本的需求和行爲在大腦中是如何聯結的：飢餓、暴食、節儉、慈善、吝嗇。 - Yet they haven’t been able to do that even in Texas, which is willing both to impose great pain (by its stinginess on health care) and to shortchange the future (by neglecting education).
他們連在承受了巨大痛苦（表現在健保上的吝嗇）和自斷後路（表現在低教育支出）的德州都未能做到，又該怎樣去推行到全國呢？ - Given America's general stinginess when it comes to foreign aid, their concern is understandable.
ECONOMIST: A fresh start The - Part of the stinginess is due a strict credit-scoring regime, operated by two private agencies that are owned mainly by the banks themselves.
ECONOMIST: Mexican banks