thriftiness

基本解釋

He has another, more novel theory to explain young people’s thriftiness.
他還有其他更多理論來解釋年輕人的節(jié)儉。
Check out the Power Hog , an adorably pig-shaped power monitor that introduces kids to energy efficiency (and general thriftiness) by piggybacking upon the familiar format of the piggy bank.
不妨看看這個小豬型的電力監(jiān)測器，它用以往儲蓄罐這種熟悉的形象來告訴你的孩子如何提高能源傚率（和節(jié)儉）。
My father often said it was only the hardheaded thriftiness of my grandmother that kept the wolf at bay.
父親常說若不是祖母精明能乾，尅勤尅儉，一家人非挨餓不可。

An unintended consequence of this thriftiness is that economists are not equipped to understand the behavior of highly-indebted people.
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But the June drop suggests that absent government stimulus money, the American consumer really can't save much more and that the rise in savings rates might be less a sign of a new thriftiness than it is a short-term tendency to hoard anything extra that comes in.
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