Saving
['seɪvɪŋ] or ['sevɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) characterized by thriftiness; 'wealthy by inheritance but saving by constitution'- Ellen Glasgow .
达斯汀錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Save
(a.) Preserving; rescuing.
(a.) Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish or wasteful; economical; as, a saving cook.
(a.) Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful; as, a saving bargain; the ship has made a saving voyage.
(a.) Making reservation or exception; as, a saving clause.
(participle) With the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to.
(n.) Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy.
(n.) Exception; reservation.
爱德温錄入
同義詞及近義詞:
a. Economical, frugal, sparing, thrifty, careful.
編輯:奥斯本
例句/造句/用法:
- But there was nothing to be done, saving to communicate to Wemmick what I had that night found out, and to remind him that we waited for his hint. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- As Mr. Muzzle uttered these words, he took a step or two towards the door; and, by way of saving time, began to pull off his coat as he walked along. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- I added this saving clause, in the moment of rejecting four richly caparisoned coursers which I had had wild thoughts of harnessing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- All his journeys were ruggedly performed; for he was always steadfast in a purpose of saving money for Emily's sake, when she should be found. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of money. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- They are all labor-saving machines themselves, every one of 'em. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- On this principle nurserymen always prefer saving seed from a large body of plants, as the chance of intercrossing is thus lessened. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The result has been the saving of vast amounts of maritime property, estimated at many millions of dollars yearly. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The empress's apartment on fire by an accident; the author instrumental in saving the rest of the palace. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- If it is equipped with a three-heat switch, it can be adjusted to 600 watts at full, 300 at medium and 150 at low, which means a great saving in current for most small cooking operations. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- A saving of 75 per cent. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- His home, in such another street as the first, saving that it was narrower, was over a little shop. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- In a little while another veteran was discharged abruptly from the same door, clawing at the air for a saving support. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I am saving up three suits--one for a wedding-suit. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Mrs. Norris seemed as much delighted with the saving it would be to Sir Thomas as with any part of it. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- You've got one friend as I knows of; one as is good for a Savings-Bank book, or I'm a blue monkey! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- We wanted a hundred and ten pounds: your mother has ninety-two, and I have none to spare in the bank; and she thinks that you have some savings. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Nice cutting is her function: she divides With spiritual edge the millet-seed, And makes intangible savings. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- When I came to New York I put $30 into a savings-bank under the New York Sun office. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- When it is all over, she said, you will be glad of my savings. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- With my love and respects--and I can't find it in my conscience to take a poor girl's savings, when she may want them herself. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Even this small reduction of debt, however, has not been all made from the savings out of the ordinary revenue of the state. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Soon his savings were gone, and he had to look about for a new means of living. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- If he was an economist, he generally found it more profitable to employ his annual savings in new purchases than in the improvement of his old estate. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The young lapidary was poor, and he had spent part of his savings in working out his scheme of block-printing. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- I spend my savings so, once every year. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Still, I'm not easy in my mind about taking the poor thing's little savings. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Miret will not be extortionate: the first year's rent you have already in your savings; afterwards Miss Lucy must trust God, and herself. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- He would want to help me out of his little savings, I knew, and I knew that he ought not to help me, and that I must not suffer him to do it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- But at this moment he suddenly saw himself as a pitiful rascal who was robbing two women of their savings. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
整理:萨莎