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

• I do not like these parsimonious mean spirited person.
  我不喜欢那些又吝啬又小气的人。
• 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。
• This is a shame because the basic conceit of the book is parsimonious and clever.
  这点真是可惜，因为这本书本身的基本想法还是比较节制和巧妙的。
• 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。
• The appropriations committee, suddenly and ill-advisedly parsimonious, cut funds for assistance to the disadvantaged.
  拨款委员会突然地和不明智地节俭地裁减对生活水平低的人的援助。
• Confirmatory factor analysis not only showed the scale has good construct validity, but also supported our division of factor dimensions from empirical, In addition, Absolute fit measures, parsimonious fit measures, incremental fit measures shows that the overall model fit is very good.
  验证性因子分析不仅说明量表具有较好的结构效度，也从实证上支持了我们对因素维度的划分。另外，绝对拟合指标、增值拟合指数、简约拟合指数显示所建模型整体拟合性很好。
• General manager Uli Hoeness is very risk-averse and strangely parsimonious in the transfer-market.
  赫胖非常害怕风险，在转会市场上异乎寻常的吝啬。
• Only the federal government can fill the demand gap, and if it is too parsimonious and the recession returns, the deficit would get much worse.
  只有联邦政府才能够填补需求缺口，可是如果政府花钱太节俭，经济衰退又卷土重来那时的赤字将会更加严重。
• In the longer term, making China less parsimonious and the US less voracious means re-engineering both economies.
  从长期看，让中国变得不那么吝啬，美国不那么贪婪，意味着两个经济体都要接受改造。
• 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。