斤斤计较 meaning in Chinese
square accounts in every detail; be calculating and unwilling to make the smallest sacrifice; be excessively mean in one's dealings; fuss over sth.; haggle over [for; about] every ounce; mindful of narrow personal gains and losses; palter with a person about sth.; reckon up every iota; stand on little points; skin a flint; think about personal gains and losses; weigh and balance at every turn
Examples
- I hope you will put up with it, edred .
我希望你对此并不斤斤计较，艾德雷德。 - He is alive to his own interests .
他斤斤计较自己利益。 - Some wore the cunning look of bargaining and plotting .
有些人带着斤斤计较和苦心经营的诡诈面孔。 - His insistence upon precision of language is apt to seem fussy .
他斤斤计较文字的精确性，有时到了小题大作的程度。 - She'll consider it your fault if we quarrel because you strain at a gnat .
她会认为我们的争吵是你错了，因为你这么斤斤计较。