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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Based on the recursive extended least squares ( RELS) estimation of the model parameters, the F-test detectors for obtaining model order, suborder and time delay are given, and the parsimonious parameter models are also given.
  根据模型参数的递推增广最小二乘法（RELS）估计，给出了确定模型的阶、子阶和时滞的F检验判决器，且可得到节省参数模型。