Miser
['maɪzə] or ['maɪzɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a stingy hoarder of money and possessions (often living miserably).
錄入:特德--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A wretched person; a person afflicted by any great misfortune.
(n.) A despicable person; a wretch.
(n.) A covetous, grasping, mean person; esp., one having wealth, who lives miserably for the sake of saving and increasing his hoard.
(n.) A kind of large earth auger.
英格拉姆編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Niggard, curmudgeon, hunks, skinflint, lickpenny, churl, sordid wretch.
佛瑞德整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Niggard, churl, skinflint, curmudgeon, screw, scrimp, hunks
ANT:Prodigal, spendthrift, rake
亚历克斯編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a miserable person: an extremely covetous person: a niggard: one whose chief pleasure is in hoarding wealth.—adj. like a miser.—adj. Mī′serly excessively covetous: sordid: niggardly.
n. a tubular well boring-bit with valved opening for the earth passing up.
爱德温錄入
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of a miser, foretells you will be unfortunate in finding true happiness owing to selfishness, and love will disappoint you sorely. For a woman to dream that she is befriended by a miser, foretells she will gain love and wealth by her intelligence and tactful conduct. To dream that you are miserly, denotes that you will be obnoxious to others by your conceited bearing To dream that any of your friends are misers, foretells that you will be distressed by the importunities of others.
編輯:鲁弗斯
例句/造句/用法:
- Only a miser; that's all. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- The folks call me a miser, my dear. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Bob, the Miser's cur. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Another miser? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- You are a hard-hearted Miser. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The pauper and the miser are as free as any in the Catholic Convents of Palestine. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Now, look well about you, my dear, and tell me if you see any book about a Miser. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Please I don't believe you are a hard-hearted miser at all, and please I don't believe you ever for one single minute were! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He never allowed Godfrey a shilling in his life, for he is an absolute miser, but it will all come to him right enough. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- It took many weeks to explore its whole contents; and Captain Holmes found it a very agreeable task to dive into the miser's secret hoards. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The Miser dies without a Shirt. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- What if he be a miser, and can make no use of what I would deprive him of? 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Ah, people called him a miser. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Can we any longer doubt, then, that the miser and money-maker answers to the oligarchical State? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Didn't you make ME jump, when I opened my eyes a moment ago, and saw you sitting there, like the ghost of a girl miser, in the dead of the night. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He seemed to save up his Misers as they had saved up their money. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- His very smile was cunning, as if he had been studying smiles among the portraits of his misers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The rich, pursued the infatuated and unconscious Donne, are a parcel of misers, never living as persons with their incomes ought to live. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- This, sir,' replied Silas, adjusting his spectacles, and referring to the title-page, 'is Merryweather's Lives and Anecdotes of Misers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Then they are not the Misers I mean. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- When the task was done, Mr Boffin, with his appetite for Misers whetted instead of satiated, began to look out again. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
校對:奥斯瓦德