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

• The general model provides the best fit to the data, while the environmental model is the second parsimonious model, perhaps due to complex mode of Body mass index inheritance;
  一般模型提供了最合适模型，环境模型是次之的严格模型，可能由于体重指数遗传模式的复杂性所致；
• 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 new auto malfunction diagnosis model is based on the fuzzy theory, probability reasoning and parsimonious covering theory.
  将模糊数学、概率推理和节约覆盖集理论引入到汽车故障诊断中，建立了一个新的汽车故障综合诊断模型。
• 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。
• Used in this manner, the feature-based approach is probably the most parsimonious requirements gathering process.
  以这种方式使用，基于功能特性的方法很可能是最节约的需求收集过程。
• A New Approach to Integrating the. Parsimonious Covering Model and the Probabilistic Inference
  集成节约覆盖模型与概率推理的新方法
• 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；
• 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！
• 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。
• 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。