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 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。
• The alignment length of the fragments was 384 bp after excluding ambiguous sites, including 167 parsimony informative sites.
  比对后的序列长度是384bp，包括167个简约信息位点。
• 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。
• 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
• It is still using the traditional design, overall design parsimony appears to be agile.
  该机仍采用传统的直板造型设计，整体的设计风格显得简约利落。
• An evolutionary tree containing 18 taxons was reconstructed using 8 gene sequence data ( minus 3rd codon position transition information), which convered 3 plant genomes, by maximum parsimony method.
  应用最大简约法，并利用3个基因组的共8个基因序列（去除了编码基因密码子第3位点的转换信息）对18个植物分类群进行了系统发育树的构建研究。
• The Kimura's 2-Parameter sequence divergences were calculated and molecular phylogenetic trees were reconstructed by using the neighbor-joining ( NJ) and maximum parsimony ( MP) methods as well as Bayesian inference.
  采用Kimura双参数模型计算遗传距离：并用邻接法（NJ）、最大简约法（MP）和贝叶斯法（Bayesian）重建了黄颡鱼属鱼类的分子系统树。
• 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。
• 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。