單詞
tightwad
英 ['ta?tw?d]
美['ta?twɑd]
基本信息
- n. 吝嗇鬼；守財奴
中文詞源
tightwad 吝嗇鬼
tight,拉緊的，手握緊的，wad,沓，俚語義錢。
英文詞源
- tightwad (n.)
- "parsimonious person," 1900, from tight in the figurative sense of "close-fisted" (1805) + wad (n.). The notions of stringency and avarice also combine in Modern Greek sphiktos "greedy," literally "tight."
雙語例句
- 1. He is a tightwad because he doesn't like to spend money on anything.
- 噢,tightwad就是小氣,不肯花錢.
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- 2. Bill's too much of a tightwad to ever eat there.
- 比爾太吝嗇了,以至于(他)決不可能在那兒用餐.
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- 3. You can never make a tightwad spend his money freely.
- 你不可能動到他的錢,因為他很小氣.
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- 4. What is the difference between a tightwad's brain and a spendthrift's brain?
- 吝嗇鬼的腦袋和揮霍者的腦袋有什么區別 呢 ?
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- 5. What is the difference between tightwad's brain and a spendthrift's brain?
- 吝嗇鬼的大腦和揮霍者的大腦有什么差異?
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