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

• 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。
• A Model of Fault Diagnosis for Communication Equipment Based on the Parsimonious Covering Set Theory
  基于节约覆盖集理论的通信设备故障诊断模型
• 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。
• The Parsimonious Covering Theory and the Causal Network Model is first applied to the multiple-fault diagnosis of an avionic system. And the multiple-fault diagnosis technique of an avionic system based on Causal Network is researched.
  本文首次将简约覆盖理论和因果网络模型应用到航电系统的多故障诊断中，探讨基于因果网络模型的航电系统多故障诊断技术。
• Adulterating the very wine with which she's feasting me and her other lifelong fellows, she embodied the definition of being parsimonious. ( UTOYXC)
  在宴请我和她的挚友们的酒中加水，她真把小气和吝啬表现得淋漓尽致。
• 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。
• 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。
• The communication between machines, the program copy function, a large number of parsimonious time manually doing the program;
  机器之间通讯，程式拷贝功用，大量俭省手动做程式的时间；
• 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。
• Finally, it's worth noting that ideographic scripts like Chinese and Japanese tend to be parsimonious with characters compared to alphabetic scripts like Latin and Cyrillic.
  最后，值得一提的是中文和日文这类象形文字，与Latin、Cyrillic这类字母文字相比，用字往往更少。