- 1守財奴、吝嗇鬼
A miser is a person who has money — or could spend it — but hates to let it go. They keep it, count it, and feel pain when they must buy even small things. This is not the same as being careful, or poor, or good at saving. A careful person spends when it is wise; a miser spends as little as they can, even when they have plenty, and often even when someone they love needs help. The picture in stories is someone cold and alone with a box of coins (Scrooge is the famous one). The word is a little literary: newspapers and novels like it; in daily talk people more often say stingy or a . Calling someone a miser is . It names the person, not one act of not paying.
組成From Late Latin miser, meaning wretched, unhappy, poor in spirit — not from English 'miser-' as in miserable in a straight line of sense, though they are the same Latin word. The idea moved from 'wretched person' to 'person wretched about money'.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Misername
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A surname.
misernoun/ˈmaɪzə(ɹ)/
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derogatoryA person who hoards money rather than spending it; one who is cheap or extremely parsimonious.
- Scrooge was a typical miser: spending nothing he could save, nor enjoying his wealth.
- […] foꝛ it was many times notoꝛious vnto al mẽ, yͭ he did eate in his houſe no other fleſh by the ſpace of iii. dayes, but on Hare, whiche was ſent him. He was ſuch a miſer to ſpend, ⁊ ſo deſirous to hooꝛd and lay vp money, yͭ had it not béene foꝛ ſome dayes of ſacrifices, oꝛ his bidden gueſts, not a moꝛsel of fleſh was eaten in his houſe: but only fed of his pꝛouiſion from his garden.
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obsoleteA person who is wretched or despicable; a wretch.
- […] a poore virgin ſir, an il-fauor’d thing ſir, but mine owne, a poore humour of mine ſir, to take that that no man elſe will: rich honeſtie dwels like a miſer ſir, in a poore houſe, as your Pearle in your foule oyſter.
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A kind of earth auger, typically large-bored and often hand-operated.
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