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

• Conclusion The parsimonious mutagenesis of CDR 3 could significantly improve the affinity of antibody.
  结论CDR3区的限定性突变可显著提高抗体亲和力。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。