adj．节省的，吝啬的：在花费、使用或分配方面过于节省或限制。
stint /stɪnt/ TEM8
可数名词 A stint is a period of time which you spend doing a particular job or activity or working in a particular place. 一段时间
He is returning to this country after a five-year stint in Hong Kong.
他在香港呆了5年后就要返回这个国家了。
名词 any of various small sandpipers of the chiefly northern genus Calidris (or Erolia), such as C. minuta (little stint) 滨鹬属鸟
动词 to be frugal or miserly towards (someone) with (something) 吝惜
an unbroken period of time during which you do something
同义词： stretch
smallest American sandpiper
同义词： least sandpiper / Erolia minutilla
an individuals prescribed share of work
her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her
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... Circumspect审慎的=cautious 楴 Stinting节省，吝惜，限额 Idiom方言，成语 ...
Inadequate, as in size or fullness, especially through economizing or stinting.
不充足的，如在大小或丰富程度上，尤其是通过节约或限制。
'What is the good of your mother and me economizing and stinting ourselves to give you a University education, if it is not to be used for the honour and glory of God?
“要是你不为上帝的光辉和荣耀服务，那么我和你母亲省吃俭用、吃苦受罪地供你上大学，还有什么用处呢？”
What is the good of your mother and me economizing and stinting ourselves to give you a University education, if it is not to be used for the honour and glory of God?
要是你不为上帝的光辉和荣耀服务，那么我和你母亲省吃俭用、吃苦受罪地供你上大学，还有什么用处呢？
They are also cross with State for stinting on support for Ahmed Chalabi, an Iraqi opposition leader who in exile became Mr Perle's friend.
Far from stinting on schools, America spends far more than the international average, and the federal government is spending record amounts on elementary and secondary education.
Arnheim is not stinting with his views.