However much Asians trumpet the value of parsimony, their governments any in opening the fiscal sluices.
无论亚洲国家如何大力宣扬节俭的价值, 它们的政府在大开财政支出之闸门方面都毫不比他国怯懦.
期刊摘选
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。
辞典例句
英英释义
Noun
1. extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily
2. extreme stinginess
词组搭配
principle (或law) of parsimony
the scientific principle that things are usually connected or behave in the simplest or most economical way, especially with reference to alternative evolutionary pathways