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Describes someone who doesn't like to spend or give money, time, or praise, even when they easily could — the opposite of generous. Can also describe a small, ungenerous amount of something, like 'a stingy portion of food.' It's informal and usually a bit critical when said about a person.
小氣的、吝嗇的
組成sting + -y — likely connected to the idea that being treated stingily feels like a small, sharp hurt, though this isn't fully certain.
同家族的字
- stingthe likely base word this is built from
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
stingyadj詞源 1/ˈstɪnd͡ʒi/
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Unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; mean.
- "Well, I'm doing my best to grow," said Davy, "but it's a thing you can't hurry much. If Marilla wasn't so stingy with her jam I believe I'd grow a lot faster."
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Small, scant, meager, insufficient.
- The realization of this joint oppression is like discovering that the stingy crusts of bread being held out by society have mold on them.
- As the moon wheels around Earth every 28 days and shows us a progressively greater and then stingier slice of its sun-lightened face, the distance between the moon and Earth changes, too. At the nearest point along its egg-shaped orbit, its perigee, the moon may be 26,000 miles closer to us than it is at its far point.
stingyadj詞源 2/ˈstɪŋi/
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informalStinging; able or inclined to sting.
- Bumble bee – Bumble bee / I send to you this sonnet, / But please don't be – Bumble bee / The stingy bee in my bonnet.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。