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吝啬鬼英文为miser; niggard; skinflint; hard-boiled egg; Scrooge; tight-arse; tightwad; pinchpenny; scunge。
吝啬鬼 [penny pincher;miser; niggard; shylock; skinflint]∶吝啬的或过度节俭的人[piker]∶办事很小气的人;在用钱和使劲方面的小气鬼。
例句：吃完后，吝啬鬼说：“既然我们还在桌子边，让我们连晚饭也吃了吧。”这次上桌的有排骨、煮土豆和杂烩青菜。于是两个人又吃起来。
When they had finished, the cheap farmer said, "While we're still at the table, let's have supper too." They were now served steak, boiled potatoes and mixed vegetables, and they ate once more.
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Susan FiskShelley Taylor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。
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.
吝啬的人家里该买新冰箱了，可丈夫是个吝啬鬼，老冰箱没有完全坏掉之前，他是不会同意买新冰箱的。
We would need a new fridge, but my husband is such a cheapskate that I don't think we'll buy one before the other completely falls apart.
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