//=== 小氣鬼的英文
http://www.appledaily.com.tw/appledaily/article/international/20110821/33612954/
cheapskate (n.) 小氣鬼；守財奴
miser (n.) 吝嗇鬼
hoarder (n.) 囤積者
stingy (a.) 小氣的；吝嗇的
tight-fisted (a.) 吝嗇的
squeeze blood out of a stone「從石頭中榨出血」，意指人「一毛不拔，鐵公雞」。
penny-pincher, pinchpenny, niggard, cheese-parer, Scrooge;
miser /m'aiz.r/
n, someone who has a strong wish to have money and hates to spend it
--> miserly, adj
//=== tight-fisted
a. unwilling to spend money:
Don't wait for Gillian to buy you a drink - she's too tight-fisted.
//=== thrift, 節儉
n. the careful use of money, especially by avoiding waste
--> thrifty, adj
budgeting money
//=== http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-chinese-traditional/fathom
fathom
verb [ T ] UK /ˈfæð.əm/ US /ˈfæð.əm/
to discover the meaning of something:
For years people have been trying to fathom (out) the mysteries of the whale's song.
to understand someone or why someone acts as they do:
I can't fathom her at all.
英尋（測量水深單位，合1.8米或6英尺）
uk to discover the meaning of something
弄清；理解
For years people have been trying to fathom (out) the mysteries of the whale's song.
多年來人們一直試圖弄清鯨魚歌聲之謎。
to understand someone or why someone acts as they do
瞭解；明白
I can't fathom her at all.
我一點也搞不懂她。
//===cheapskate
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-che2.htm
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Skate began to appear in print in the US at the end of the nineteenth century, almost simultaneously meaning a worn-out horse, a mean or contemptible person, and a second-rate sportsman (later, in the Royal Navy, according to Eric Partridge, it became a slang term for a troublesome rating). Cheap was added early on to refer to a person’s tight-fisted nature rather than any of his other perceived inadequacies. An early example appeared in the Newark Daily Advocate of Ohio in 1896 in a story about a streetcar motorman who was remonstrating with a driver of a coal wagon: “You’re a gol dinged, insignificant, pusillanimous, ragged, cheap skate of a tenth assistant barnyard corporal.”
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