不过,我常常把它们留下来自己用,我不是小气,我当然买得起任何一件——不骗你,我喜欢买东西——但是不知怎的,没有什么能比这些赠品更能让我领悟到存在的喜悦了。
I’m not stingy. Of course I can afford to buy any of these things—and I do, I enjoy making purchases—but somehow nothing brings the joy of existence home to me more than these premiums.
相反,各付己账被认为是小气的行为,这不利于朋友的团结,也不利于保持和谐的人际关系。
Dutch treatment is the stingy behavior in China, is unfavorable to the friends’ solidarity and is unfavorable to keeping the harmonious interpersonal relationship.
落了一夏季的雨,这风真叫我受不了,风又熄不了我心头的火,勃拉什·维尔是个小气鬼,菜场里又不大有豌豆卖,他只知道吃,正好象英国人说的,我害‘忧郁病’了,奶油又那么贵!
Blachevelle is very stingy; there are hardly any green peas in the market; one does not know what to eat. I have the spleen, as the English say, butter is so dear!
应用推荐