parsimony

常見例句

But over the years, even as he drove his wife nuts with his parsimony, he harbored a deep secret.
雖然這些年來，他的吝嗇甚至使他妻子發(fā)瘋，他心底卻深藏著一個(gè)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.
我希望讀者不要不把這個(gè)算做我的優(yōu)點(diǎn)，因爲(wèi)我私下相信了她的話，暗暗地悲歎造物者在造我的時(shí)候怎會(huì)那樣吝嗇。
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.
保守黨和自由民主黨仍舊口口聲聲說支持派遣部隊(duì)，但實(shí)際上攻擊政府缺乏戰(zhàn)略，以及對(duì)武裝部隊(duì)吝嗇的做法。

But critics attribute this to parsimony towards its predecessors' projects and towards opposition governors and mayors.
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"Ergen throws around nickels like manhole covers, " says Clelend, referring to the executive's legendary parsimony.
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But at home, Japan's consumers are getting progressively less thanks for their parsimony.
ECONOMIST: Japanese savers