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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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！
• 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；
• I do not like these parsimonious mean spirited person.
  我不喜欢那些又吝啬又小气的人。
• 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。
• 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。