parsimonious

英语

词源

parsimony +‎ -ious

发音

• (美國) IPA^(幫助)：/pɑɹ.sɪˈmo͡ʊn.i.əs/
• 斷字：par‧si‧mon‧i‧ous

• （英国）音频

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形容词

parsimonious (比較級 more parsimonious, 最高級 most parsimonious)

1. 过分节俭的；吝啬的，悭吝的

   近義詞： penurious、niggardly、stingy、pennywise、tight-fisted；亦參見Thesaurus:frugal, Thesaurus:stingy

   • 1898, William Graham Sumner, “The Conquest of the United States by Spain”, 出自 War and Other Essays, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 出版於 1911, →OCLC，頁號 333:

     Our fathers would have an economical government, even if grand people called it a parsimonious one, and taxes should be no greater than were absolutely necessary to pay for such a government.

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   • 2002 January, “55 great personal-finance ideas”, 出自 Kiplinger's Personal Finance, 卷 56, 期 1, Washington, D.C.: Kiplinger Washington Editors, →ISSN, →OCLC，頁號 53, col. 3:

     The first three college-savings plans stand out for their parsimonious expenses […]

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2. 不加猜想的，没有假设的
   • 2006, Richard Bonneau [et al.], “The Inferelator: An Algorithm for Learning Parsimonious Regulatory Networks from Systems-biology Data Sets de Novo”, 出自 Genome Biology, 卷 7, 期 5, London: BioMed Central, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMCID，頁號 R36:

     Statistical methods offer the ability to enforce parsimonious selection of the most influential potential predictors of each gene's state.

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3. (運動) 不让分的，防守牢固的

衍生词汇

• equiparsimonious
• imparsimonious
• nonparsimonious
• parsimoniously
• parsimoniousness
• unparsimonious
• unparsimoniously

 

延伸阅读

• “parsimonious”, Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.