thriftiness
常见例句
- He has another, more novel theory to explain young people’s thriftiness.
他还有其他更多理论来解释年轻人的节俭。 - 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.
不妨看看这个小猪型的电力监测器,它用以往储蓄罐这种熟悉的形象来告诉你的孩子如何提高能源效率(和节俭)。 - My father often said it was only the hardheaded thriftiness of my grandmother that kept the wolf at bay.
父亲常说若不是祖母精明能干,克勤克俭,一家人非挨饿不可。 - An unintended consequence of this thriftiness is that economists are not equipped to understand the behavior of highly-indebted people.
FORBES: Government And People Are Both Spendthrifts With Credit Cards - 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.
FORBES: Magazine Article 返回 thriftiness