parsimony

常见例句

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。

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.
FORBES: Chief Executive Charles Ergen
But at home, Japan's consumers are getting progressively less thanks for their parsimony.
ECONOMIST: Japanese savers