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

• 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。
• Although we generally like to invoke occam's razor, for some patients we cannot follow the rule of diagnostic parsimony.
  尽管我们通常喜欢采用奥克姆剃刀原则来解释疾病，但对于某些病人，我们不能遵循这个诊断简约性规律。
• 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 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。
• Although the view of saint is useful for complicated medical cases, can the diagnostic parsimony that medicine has adhered to for so many years be abandoned?
  尽管塞恩特的观点对复杂内科病例有用，但是，我们是否可以放弃医学界坚持那么多年的诊断简约性原则呢？
• We investigated the phylogeny of the parasitoid wasp family Eulophidae ( Hymenoptera) using nuclear 18S rDNA partial sequences with maximum parsimony and Bayesian inference methods of sequence analysis.
  本文基于18Srdna部分序列，用MP和Baysian方法研究了姬小蜂科的系统发育，对姬小蜂科的单系性及其与其它小蜂科间的关系进行了讨论。
• 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。
• In recent years, the time-varying parametric model, especially time-varying auto-regressive ( TVAR) parametric model is used to describe a nonstationary random signal widely for its parsimony and high resolution.
  时变自回归（TVAR）参数模型具有良好的参数压缩性和高分辨率特性，是近年来分析和处理非平稳随机信号的一种有效的方法。
• In the present paper the essentials of the concept and method of quantitative parsimony analysis for cladogram construction are revealed. the old adage "birds of a feather flock together" is one dating rule that will never go out of style.
  数值简约性原则是分支分类学进行分支分析及重构生物演化分支图的主要思想方法。俗话中的物以类聚，人以群分是一个永不过时的约会规则。
• As the discussant points out, parsimony of diagnosis is an important standard in modern medicine; however, this principle can fail us.
  正如讨论者所指出的，诊断的简约性原则是现代医学的一个重要标准；但是，这个原则可能使我们诊治失败。