parsimony

基本解释

• n.过度节俭；吝啬；简约性

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• But over the years, even as he drove his wife nuts with his parsimony, he harbored a deep secret.
  虽然这些年来，他的吝啬甚至使他妻子发疯，他心底却深藏着一个秘密。
• I hope the reader will not fail to count it to my credit that I implicitly believed her, and inwardly deplored the parsimony of the Creator in the matter of my making.
  我希望读者不要不把这个算做我的优点，因为我私下相信了她的话，暗暗地悲叹造物者在造我的时候怎会那样吝啬。
• Both the Tories and the Lib Dems still say they back the deployment,but they attack the government’s perceived lack of strategy and its parsimony towards the armed forces.
  保守党和自由民主党仍旧口口声声说支持派遣部队，但实际上攻击政府缺乏战略，以及对武装部队吝啬的做法。

权威例句

• But critics attribute this to parsimony towards its predecessors' projects and towards opposition governors and mayors.
  ECONOMIST: Chavez’s muddled new world The
• "Ergen throws around nickels like manhole covers, " says Clelend, referring to the executive's legendary parsimony.
  FORBES: Chief Executive Charles Ergen

词组短语

短语

• grammatical parsimony 语法小气
• most parsimony 最大简约法;软件中的最大简约法
• therapeutic parsimony 治疗从简
• parsimony method 简约法
• Parsimony Methods 简约法

英英字典

柯林斯英英字典

• Parsimony is extreme unwillingness to spend money.

专业释义

生物学

• 简约法

  The methods of constructing phylogenetic trees include the distance-based methods, parsimony, maximum likelihood, and Bayesian inference methods.
  构建系统树的方法有距离法、简约法、最大似然法以及贝叶斯推断法等。

• 简约性

心理学

• 吝啬