niggardliness

niggardliness

1. Connie felt again the tightness, niggardliness of the men of her generation.

康妮又感觉到她同代的男子们的狭隘和鄙吝。

2. 29 Against him that is niggardly of his bread, the city will murmur, and the testimony of his niggardliness is true.

悭吝设宴款待人的，必遭受全城的抱怨；他悭吝的恶名，是确实的。

3. The finance minister, Hans Eichel, has become a byword for prudent niggardliness.

财政部长Hans Eichel已经成为了谨慎，吝啬的代名词。

4. Unchastity is the taint in a woman; niggardliness is the taint in a giver. Taints, indeed, are all evil things, both in this world and the next.

邪淫是妇女的污垢，吝啬是施者的污垢；恶法的确是今生与来世的污垢。