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

• 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。
• 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。
• I do not like these parsimonious mean spirited person.
  我不喜欢那些又吝啬又小气的人。
• Parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses; lived in a most penurious manner& denying himself every indulgence.
  少数慷慨的推动缓解了吝啬、节俭；以最节俭的方式生活&不让自己有任何放纵的行为。
• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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；
• 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。