a disposition not to be liberal (generous) with money
例句与用法
1.
The illiberality of parents , in allowance towards their children , is an harmful error ; makes them base ; acquaints them with shifts ; makes them sort with mean company ; and makes them surfeit more when they come to plenty 在子女小时不应对他们过于苛吝。否则会使他们变得卑贱,甚至投机取巧,以至堕入下流,即使后来有了财富时也不会正当利用。
2.
Part iii emphasizes on the populace mental aberrance in the movement " great quantum leap " . the populace mentality has the tendency of aberrance and illiberality . such mentality has occurred as the profit - hungry mentality of petty farmers ; worship of obedience ; currying with mass blindly ; fetish with experience ; preferring left to right “大跃进”运动中群众心理处于歧变和偏误的态势,在群众心理当中普遍存在着;贪多求快的小农心理;顺从领袖的崇拜心理;盲目趋附的从众心理;迷信经验的教条心理;宁“左”勿右的政治心理。