parsimony

英 [ˈpɑːsɪməni]

美 [ˈpɑːrsɪmoʊni]

n.  悭吝; 吝啬; 小气

GRE

BNC.32880 / COCA.28966

牛津词典

noun

• 悭吝；吝啬；小气
  the fact of being extremely unwilling to spend money

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 小气；吝啬
  Parsimonyis extreme unwillingness to spend money.
  1. Due to official parsimony only the one machine was built.
     由于官方过于吝啬，仅制造了那一台机器。

英英释义

noun

• extreme stinginess
  Synonym:meannessminginessniggardlinessniggardnessparsimoniousnesstightnesstightfistednesscloseness
• extreme care in spending money
  Synonym:parsimoniousnessthriftpenny-pinching

双语例句

• Principle of Parsimony: Write large components only when it is clear by demonstration that nothing else will do.
  吝啬原则：除非能够明确证明别无它法，否则不要编写大的组件。
• A little later Norton reminded them of Hamilton's Law of Parsimony, the application of which they immediately claimed for every reasoning process of theirs.
  不久诺尔屯又反提醒他们汉密尔顿的悭吝律。他们随即宣称他们的每一个推理过程都是应用着这一规律的。
• The phylogenetic trees were established by neighbor joining, maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods together with the morphological study in the genus Enteromorpha.
  通过使用邻接法、最大简约法、最大似然法和贝叶斯法建立了基于以上三种不同基因序列的系统发育树，并与形态学的研究方法相结合，研究了浒苔属的系统发育关系。
• Among the variable sites, 13 of parsimony informative sites and11 out of the singleton variable sites were unique to the Chinese indigenous breeds sampled.
  仅在中国地方鸡种所检测到的简约性信息位点13个，单变异位点11个。
• The parsimony network analysis of the17 haplotypes suggested that the genetic divergence is the result of long-term isolation of individual populations.
  通过对17个单倍型的简约网络分析表明，遗传趋异是不同种群长期隔离的结果。
• I chose now to live retired, frugal, and within ourselves. Rule of Parsimony: Write a big program only when it is clear by demonstration that nothing else will do.
  节俭准则：只在通过原型澄清后才编写大的程序。
• Koza tried applying parsimony in other runs but found that parsimony added to the beginning of a run dampened the efficiency of the solutions.
  柯扎尝试在其他的运行中添加点简约性元素，却发现在运行开始加入的简约性元素降低了解决方案的效率。
• The Mental Image Representation Underlying the Law of Parsimony: Interpreting the MHD in Another Way Cognitive Analysis of Politeness Causing Misunderstandings or Errors in Verbal Communication
  表象&认知吝啬原则：MHD问题另释礼貌原则下言语交际失误的认知成因
• Pressure on banks to exercise more parsimony and caution has escalated in recent weeks.
  近几周来，各银行惜贷及慎贷压力正逐步升级。
• A classic example comes from comedian Jack Benny, famous for his parsimony.
  有个经典例子出自以吝啬著称的喜剧演员杰克·班尼。