parsimonious

英语

词源

parsimony +‎ -ious

发音

(美國) 國際音標^(幫助): /pɑɹ.sɪˈmo͡ʊn.i.əs/
斷字：par‧si‧mon‧i‧ous
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形容词

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

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，第 333 頁:
  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, 第 56 卷, 第 1 期, Washington, D.C.: Kiplinger Washington Editors, →ISSN, →OCLC，第 53, col. 3 頁:
  The first three college-savings plans stand out for their parsimonious expenses […]
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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, 第 7 卷, 第 5 期, London: BioMed Central, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMCID，第 R36 頁:
  Statistical methods offer the ability to enforce parsimonious selection of the most influential potential predictors of each gene's state.
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(運動) 不让分的，防守牢固的
- 2015年5月25日, Daniel Taylor, “Norwich reach Premier League after early blitz sees off Middlesbrough”, 出自 The Guardian‎^[1], London，於1 November 2015歸檔自原頁面:
  They played like a team that was in a hurry to get back to the Premier League. Norwich City had dismantled the most parsimonious defence in the Championship inside the opening quarter of an hour and at the final whistle it was the yellow end, rather than Middlesbrough’s banks of red, where the euphoria could be found.
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衍生词汇

延伸阅读

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