bean counter

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈbiːn ˌkaʊn.tər]
• 美式音标 [ˈbiːn ˌkaʊn.t̬ɚ]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• 善于计算的人

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• My wife is really a bean counter.
  这位丈夫说：“我的妻子老是算计一点点钱。
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• Yes, that’s right, I am a bean counter for the government.
  你说对了，我是在政府里做财务工作，你知道吗？
• No one has ever catalogued them all, and it's doubtful that any of the plane's natives, let alone any other bean counter, has ever considered the effort worth the time and danger.
  没有人对到底有多少层做过统计，甚至不敢去考虑到这个任务所花费的时间和面对的危险（因为很难想像这个位面的居民会放任这个统计者不管）。

原声例句

• Um, definitely, I think on average an accountant is considered to be, you know, a bean counter,
  当然，我觉得会计师常被认为是精打细算的人，
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权威例句

• Say you're a human resources manager at a Texas firm looking to hire a bean counter.
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• Using Zoom, that same search for a banking bean counter in Texas spits out just six results.
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• Flanders recalls one Web-disabled bean counter whose site professed, on every page, that he was a certified "pubic" accountant.
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词组短语

短语

• bean -counter 会计师

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• an accountant (= someone who takes care of a company's financial affairs), especially one who works for a large company and does not like to allow employees to spend money

柯林斯英英字典

• You can describe people such as accountants and business managers as bean counters if you disapprove of them because you think they are only interested in money.