niggard
英 ['nɪgəd]
美 [ˈnɪɡəd]
- adj. 小气的;吝啬的
- n. 吝啬鬼
- vt. 行事吝啬
- vi. 吝啬地对待
记忆“niggard”这个单词可以通过构造一个直观的画面或故事。可以将“niggard”想象为一个吝啬鬼,每次“拿”(nig)出一小部分东西,就像“gardening”(园艺)时只种一点植物。通过这个画面,你可以记住这个词意味着吝啬或小气。
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- niggard (n.)
- "mean person, miser," late 14c., nygart, of uncertain origin. The suffix suggests French origin (see -ard), but the root word is possibly from earlier nig "stingy" (c. 1300), perhaps from a Scandinavian source related to Old Norse hnøggr "stingy," from Proto-Germanic *khnauwjaz (source of Swedish njugg "close, careful," German genau "precise, exact"), and to Old English hneaw "stingy, niggardly," which did not survive in Middle English.
- 1. Don't expect that niggard to invite you to dinner.
- 别指望那个吝啬鬼会请你吃饭.
- 2. The niggard contributed little to them.
- 这个吝啬鬼几乎就没捐钱给他们.
- 3. Never have we seen such a niggard like him!
- 象他这样的小气鬼我们何时见过?
- 4. Nature is prodigal in variety, but niggard in innovation.
- 自然界虽富于变化却吝于革新.
- 5. What magnanimous is not the Dao but the man. A niggard cannot do it.
- 话多是虚荣的迹象,因为在用词上过分大方的人在做事上却是个小气鬼.