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Xavier no quiso escuchar las excusas de los nobles cicateros que no deseaban aportar los recursos necesarios.
Xavier listened to no excuses from tightwad nobles unwilling to commit the necessary resources.
Pero como Tito Vetio padre es un cicatero de mucho cuidado, y demasiado viejo, además, para ser padre de un muchacho de veinte años, el joven pidió el dinero prestado a un interés exorbitante, dando como aval su herencia.
But the elder Titus Vettius being a tightwad of the first order, and too old to be the father of a twenty-year-old besides, young Titus Vettius borrowed the money at exorbitant interest, pledging his entire inheritance as collateral.
noun
Quienquiera que considere a los contables tacaños y cicateros emocionales, además de desabridos en presencia de los niños, no ha conocido a Torsten Lindberg.
Whoever thinks accountants are penny-pinchers and emotional misers, not to mention joyless in the presence of children, never met Torsten Lindberg.
«Es avaro y cicatero por naturaleza», decía, «pero sus razones eran todavía más zurdas: el caletre no le daba para ver más allá de las fronteras coloniales».
“He’s a miser and a skinflint by nature,” he said, “but his reasoning was even more perverse: he didn’t have the brains to see beyond the colonial borders.”
Ferguson intentaba reprimir la ira cuando estaba con su padre, aunque le horrorizaba la indiferencia con que el rey de los electrodomésticos consentía que Dan Schneiderman le diera la asignación, cosa que legal y moralmente le correspondía a él, pero Ferguson sospechaba que su padre también estaba resentido, no tanto con él como con su madre, que no sólo había insistido en el divorcio sino que no había tardado mucho en volver a casarse, y al no asumir sus obligaciones para con su hijo, el padre de Ferguson conseguía la cicatera recompensa de no tener que soltar dinero cuando no quería (que ahora era casi siempre) junto con la satisfacción añadida de endosar tales deberes al nuevo marido de su exmujer.
Ferguson tried not to feel angry when he was with his father, even though he was appalled by how willing the appliance king had been to let Dan Schneiderman give him the money for his allowance, which legally and morally should have been given to him by his father, but Ferguson suspected his father was angry as well, not so much at him but at his mother, who not only had pressed for the divorce but had remarried so soon afterward, and by abdicating his responsibility toward his son, Ferguson’s father had his miser’s reward of not having to part with his money when he didn’t want to (which was almost always now) along with the additional satisfaction of sticking it to his ex-wife’s new husband.
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