parsimonious

英 [ˌpɑːsɪˈməʊniəs]

美 [ˌpɑːrsɪˈmoʊniəs]

adj.  悭吝的; 吝啬的; 小气的

BNC.33566 / COCA.26783

牛津词典

adj.

• 悭吝的；吝啬的；小气的
  extremely unwilling to spend money

柯林斯词典

• 小气的；吝啬的
  Someone who isparsimoniousis very unwilling to spend money.

英英释义

adj

• excessively unwilling to spend
  1. parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses
  2. lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence
  Synonym:penurious

双语例句

• At home he was churlish, parsimonious and cruel to his daughter.
  在家里他对他那些女儿粗暴无礼且残忍。
• At home he was churlish, parsimonious, and cruel to his daughters.
  他在家中对女儿粗暴、吝啬，而且残酷。
• China is parsimonious with foreign ownership of A-shares, ruling out the option of swapping hard-currency shares for renminbi-denominated stock.
  中国对外资持有a股颇为吝啬，因此排除了用硬通货计价股票交换人民币计价股票的选择。
• The normally parsimonious finance ministry may thus be prepared to loosen the purse strings to "buy" sufficient growth to get the tax increase implemented.
  通常出手吝啬的财务省，可能因此要准备慷慨解囊了，好“买到”可观的增长，让增税计划得以实施。
• My dad's always a bit parsimonious with the gin!
  我老爸对那杜松子酒总是有点吝啬！
• Conclusion The parsimonious mutagenesis of CDR 3 could significantly improve the affinity of antibody.
  结论CDR3区的限定性突变可显著提高抗体亲和力。
• German visitors are more parsimonious their stays in London cost on average 77 a night.
  德国游客在这方面相对节俭，他们在伦敦每晚住宿的平均消费为77英镑。
• ( 1992) proposed a method for forecasting future mortality. Several advantages are claimed: a parsimonious demographic model is combined with statistical time-series methods, the method involves no subjective 'judgements'.
  在1992年提出了一种预测人口死亡率的新方法，该方法的优点在于它融合了统计学的时间序列和人口学模型，减少了主观因素对预测结果的影响。
• The authors consider the model as the most parsimonious model to account for transitive inference problems, because research literatures demonstrate that the minimal model can account for the most of standard effects coming from transitive inference researches in humans and other animals.
  研究文献证实简约模型能够说明在人类和其它动物的传递性关系推理研究中所发现的大多数标准化效应，因此其被视为迄今解释传递性关系推理问题最经济的模型。
• By contrast, the Ministry of defense has been positively parsimonious, with just$ 124000-including expenditure on hardware and support costs-going on its site last year.
  相比之下，国防部就显得特小气，只花了124000英镑，包括硬件和去年一年的维护费用。