"I reckon he'd jes as lieve have me ride him as you, Jas," she said. " Me 'n' him have got to be great friends. Ye orter n't to be so stingy."英文原著 · 《A Cumberland Vendetta》
"Yes; but it is not good enough for the occasion," said Joseph, a little testily. "Well, never mind;" and he muttered to himself, "that is the worst of _good_ women: they are so terribly stingy."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
In the city schools they don't think so. Even the stingy fifteen minutes' recess, morning and afternoon, has been stolen from the children. Instead is given the inspiriting physical culture, all making silly motions together in a nice, warm room, full of second-hand air. Is it any wonder that one in every three that die between fifteen and twenty-five, dies of consumption?英文原著 · 《Back Home》
It's simply scandalous. You have no idea of how mean and stingy a man can be until you try to sell him old bottles. And the cold-hearted way in which he will throw back ink-bottles that you worked so hard to clean, and the ones that have reading blown into the glass - Oh, it's enough to set you against business transactions all your life long. There's something about bargain and sale that's mean and censorious, finding this fault and finding that fault, and paying just as little as ever they can. It gets on one's nerves. It really does.英文原著 · 《Back Home》
Now this Angelo, although he appeared to be noble, was really a mean man. He had promised to marry a girl called Mariana, and now would have nothing to say to her, because her dowry had been lost. So poor Mariana lived forlornly, waiting every day for the footstep of her stingy lover, and loving him still.英文原著 · 《Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare》
No. My rich husband was a stingy son of a bitch, and now he's toes up. I am ready to spend.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
Like the rest of you, she was motivated by my stingy praise.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
Well, I am shocked, Sheldon, Because I totally believed that the woman you reported For being stingy with the peas couldn't keep her hands off you.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》