详细解释
吝
1、(形声。从口,文声。本义:顾惜,舍不得)。
2、同本义(爱惜过分,当耗费的舍不得耗费,该使用的舍不得使用)。
吝,恨惜也。---《说文》。字亦作恡,作悋。
凡贪而不施或谓之悋。悋,恨也。---《方言十》
以往吝。---《易·蒙》
坤为吝啬。---《易·说卦》
悔吝者,言乎其小疵也。---《易·系辞》
出纳之吝。---《论语》。皇疏:“难惜之也。”
商甚恡于财。---《孔子家语·致思》。注:“啬甚也。”
改过不吝。---《书·仲虺之诰》
惟予之公书,与张氏之吝书若不相类。---袁枚《黄生借书说》
犹之与人也,出纳之吝谓之有司。---《论语·尧曰》
又何吝一躯以啖我而全微命乎?---马中锡《中山狼传》
吝色：舍不得的神情
吝情：舍不得的表情。
3、认为耻辱。
得之不休,不获不吝。---张衡《应间》
4、吝啬;小气。
固吝者何。---明·崔铣《记王忠肃公翱三事》
以为鄙吝。---宋·司马光《训俭示康》
赏赐无所吝。---清·邵长蘅《清门剩稿》
吝爱：过分吝啬
吝悭：吝啬
吝简：吝啬
吝骄：吝啬而骄傲。
5、非分贪求。
如有周公之才之美,使骄且吝,其余不足观也已。---《论语·泰伯》
[夏侯]楙字子休,其性最急,又最吝。---《三国演义》
例句
他制定了宏大计划但却吝于细节。
He announces grand plans only to stint on the details.
所有的神甫全一样，又贪又吝。
These priests are all thus, greedy and avaricious.
有一些人会因为太疲乏了，吝于一个微笑。
Some people are too tired to give you a smile.
你认为他吝于付出感情？
You think he's emotionally unavailable?
南印笑着拍拍医生说：“我对你太严吝了。”
Nan-in smiled and patted the doctor. "I have been too strict with you."
他吝于给我薪水。
He grudged me my salary.
悭 吝嫉妒的人，即使财富满室也走不出内心的贫乏。
Even with all his money, a jealous miser cannot rise above mental poverty.
这就是今天我们从全国吝地汇集在此讨论这一话题的原因。
And I think that is why we come here from all over the country to discuss this topic today.
长寿而贫贱的人，是因为他过去慈爱动物而却吝于施舍。
To live a long life but is poor. This is because in the past one loved animal but was stingy and miserly.
有恩于你的人不会吝于再帮助你，欠你人情的人反倒没那么爽快。
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
企业一直吝于升级其雇员的个人计算机(PC)，英特尔正在看到一种改变的趋势。
Corporations have been stingy on upgrading their workers' personal computers, a trend Intel is now seeing reverse.
吃完后，吝高鬼说：“既然我们还在桌子边，那我们连晚饭也吃了吧。”
When they had finished, the cheap farmer said, "While we're still at the table, let's have supper too."
起居之不时，饮食之无节，侈于嗜欲，而吝于运动，此数者，致病之大源也。
Daily life from time to time, the diet section, a tiny in uprightness, and streamline the movement, the number, disease-causing source also.
菩萨摩诃萨行布施时，应当慈悲宽其心意，所有乞者任彼往来，随其所须皆不遮吝。
A Bodhisattva should practice giving with a compassionate and broad mind, giving whatever needed to whomever in need.
如果你骄慢、争斗、贪吝种种的习气毛病，老也不改，还是让佛替你担忧，仍算是不孝顺啊！
If you still don't change your old habits of arrogance, contention, greed, and other faults, you will cause the Buddhas to worry about you, and how can that be considered filial piety?
他们两个都说他是一只“螺丝钉”，意思是说他吝音贪婪。据说他从来不肯白给人家一个子儿。
They both agreed in calling him an "old screw"; which means a very stingy avaricious person. He never gives any money to anybody, they said.
人们会变得小气，吝于付出他们的爱与欢乐，因为他们认为奉献就是在奉献自己所拥有的东西。
People have become stingy, miserly with their love, with their joy, simply because they only think that giving means things.
人们会变得小气，吝于付出他们的爱与欢乐，因为他们认为奉献就是在奉献自己所拥有的东西。
People have become stingy, miserly with their love, with their joy, simply because they only think that giving means things.