parsimony

常见例句

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瘋，他心底卻深藏著一個秘密。
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算做我的優點，因爲我私下相信了她的話，暗暗地悲歎造物者在造我的時候怎會那樣吝嗇。
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，但實際上攻擊政府缺乏戰略，以及對武裝部隊吝嗇的做法。

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