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 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Three major methods, Neighbor-Joining ( NJ), Maximum Parsimony ( MP), and Maximum Likelihood ( ML), are widely used for phylogenetic reconstruction.
  距离矩阵邻接法、最大简约法和最大似然法是重建生物系统关系的3种主要方法。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。