| 词汇 | parsimony |
| 释义 | parsimony noun[ U ] formaluk /ˈpɑː.sɪ.mə.ni/ us /ˈpɑːr.sə.moʊ.ni/ the quality of not being willing to spend money or to give or use a lot of something: 吝啬，小气 She criticised government parsimony with defence investment.她批评政府在国防方面的投入过于吝啬。 Her stepfather's parsimony was well known.众所周知她的继父十分吝啬。 See parsimonious He despised parsimony, and particularly of words. There is parsimony on both sides of the family. They blame the parsimony of the wealthy states. Mean with money begrudge cheapskate cheeseparing chintzy frugal frugally miser miserliness miserly money grabber money-grubber money-grubbing pinchpenny scrooge skinflint stingily stinginess tight ungenerous ungenerously parsimony | Business Englishparsimony noun[ U ] formaldisapprovinguk /ˈpɑːsɪməni/ us /ˈpɑrsɪməʊni/ unwillingness to spend money or to give things to people: There is no excuse for such corporate parsimony over staff salaries. parsimoniousadjective The government has been parsimonious in its spending on the arts. Examples of parsimonyparsimony For parsimony, these additional paths were not included in the final models. In the case of parsimony analysis, 113 of the remaining alignment positions were parsimony informative. The parsimony analysis found 156 shortest trees with a length of 151 steps. All other things being equal, parsimony and generality in an explanation are to be preferred; but all other things are rarely equal. Basically the same topology was obtained by using the parsimony method. For parsimony, the income and education variables are shown in the figure on the same path trajectories, and the education statistics in parentheses. Note that this fitness measure was created by focusing the problem's high-level requirements: amplification, distortion, and parsimony. Rational choice theories place high value on parsimony and, therefore, on stripped-down assumptions. In most respects the two approaches (parsimony or avoiding a possible omitted variable problem) trade off. Competing analyses in theoretical linguistics are typically evaluated on their empirical coverage and theoretical parsimony. The issue must be decided by empirical arguments, then, rather than by parsimony considerations. Again, in the interest of parsimony, we developed summary scales of the items to capture the overall dimension. Another aspect that is of importance for a good theory of cognition is parsimony. This concept was deceptive in its parsimony and elegance. Thus, in the interest of parsimony we combine these two conceptually distinct groups. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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