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

• 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。
• The Asians 'parsimony made the Anglo-Saxons' profligacy possible.
  亚洲人的过度节约给盎格鲁撒克逊人创造了肆意挥霍的可能性。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Taking isolate USA as outgroup, the phylogenetic tree was constructed by means of maximum parsimony analysis, and the genetic evolution among isolates was analyzed.
  以USA为外类群利用最大简约法构建了大豆疫霉根腐病菌的系统发生树，并分析了菌株之间的遗传进化关系。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• There are three frequently used method: distance method, maximum parsimony method, and maximum likelihood method.
  目前常用的构建发生树的方法有三种，即距离法、最大简约法和最大似然法。