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parsimony
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过度节俭,吝啬
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英文: It was for religious and temperamental reasons - Puritanism and parsimony - that Alfred kept his family in such austerity.
中文: 罗伯茨决意保持家庭简朴主要是出于宗教和性格上的原因——他的清教徒精神以及吝啬。
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英文: Occasional visitors could be forgiven for thinking parsimony is a typically German trait.
中文: 一些偶尔来德国的人会认为，吝啬是德国人的典型特征，这种想法也许可以谅解。
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英文: Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such c;ose dea;ing implied.
中文: 这些小钱是每次一个两个向杂货店、菜贩和肉店的老板硬扣下来的；人家虽然没有明说，自己总是觉得这种掂斤拨两的交易未免落个吝啬的恶名，当时羞得脸红。
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