Parsimonious
[,pɑːsɪ'məʊnɪəs] or [,pɑrsə'monɪəs]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) excessively unwilling to spend; 'parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses'; 'lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence' .
埃尔伯特編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy.
手打:路易
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Stingy, close, avaricious, niggardly, miserly, mean, penurious, grasping, covetous, close-fisted, sordid, very saving, excessively frugal.
手打:利奥波德
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Sparing, close, penurious, frugal, niggardly, illiberal, stingy
ANT:Liberal, unsparing, profuse, extravagant, Parson,[See CLERGYMAN]
錄入:凯文
例句/造句/用法:
- The two sons grew up as parsimonious as their sire. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- If I wanted other authorities for Jarndyce and Jarndyce, I could rain them on these pages, to the shame of--a parsimonious public. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- A sober and parsimonious people, who are strangers to all such projects, do not feel that they have occasion for any such concealment. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Mr Barnacle dated from a better time, when the country was not so parsimonious and the Circumlocution Office was not so badgered. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
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