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frugal ['frugl.]
a. 节俭的, 朴素的
- I had a frugal meal of bread and cheese last night.
我昨晚吃了只有面包和奶酪的便餐。 - They lived a very frugal existence, avoiding all luxuries.
他们生活非常俭朴，力避奢侈。 - Cautious in spending money; frugal.
节俭的使用钱财时谨慎的；节俭的
frugal
[ adj ]
avoiding waste
<adj.all>
an economical mealan economical shopper
a frugal farmer
a frugal lunch
a sparing father and a spending son
sparing in their use of heat and light
stinting in bestowing gifts
thrifty because they remember the great Depression
`scotch' is used only informally
avoiding waste
<adj.all>
an economical mealan economical shopper
a frugal farmer
a frugal lunch
a sparing father and a spending son
sparing in their use of heat and light
stinting in bestowing gifts
thrifty because they remember the great Depression
`scotch' is used only informally
Frugal \Fru"gal\, a. [L. frugalis, fr. frugi, lit., for fruit;
hence, fit for food, useful, proper, temperate, the dative of
frux, frugis, fruit, akin to E. fruit: cf. F. frugal. See
{Fruit}, n.]
1. Economical in the use or appropriation of resources; not
wasteful or lavish; wise in the expenditure or application
of force, materials, time, etc.; characterized by
frugality; sparing; economical; saving; as, a frugal
housekeeper; frugal of time.
I oft admire
How Nature, wise and frugal, could commit
Such disproportions. --Milton.
2. Obtained by, or appropriate to, economy; as, a frugal
fortune. ``Frugal fare.'' --Dryden.
hence, fit for food, useful, proper, temperate, the dative of
frux, frugis, fruit, akin to E. fruit: cf. F. frugal. See
{Fruit}, n.]
1. Economical in the use or appropriation of resources; not
wasteful or lavish; wise in the expenditure or application
of force, materials, time, etc.; characterized by
frugality; sparing; economical; saving; as, a frugal
housekeeper; frugal of time.
I oft admire
How Nature, wise and frugal, could commit
Such disproportions. --Milton.
2. Obtained by, or appropriate to, economy; as, a frugal
fortune. ``Frugal fare.'' --Dryden.
- By all accounts, Judge Souter is a very nice man: kind to friends and family; a quietly pious fellow; a hard worker; an old-fashioned frugal Yankee.
- For some owners, it's a throwback to earlier times: In the frugal 1950s and 1960s, many Japanese naturally moved from cheap transport such as motor scooters to easy-to-buy minicars.
- Moreover, the Japanese have always been a frugal people.
- Now, although Ms. Gonzalez is spending some money on furniture for the home she hopes to buy with her fiance, she is being frugal.
- Bonuses and penalties depend on how frugal or free they have been with tests, referrals to specialists and hospital admissions.
- "They've got a terrible record," said former U.S. Sen. William Proxmire, a Wisconsin Democrat who built a reputation during his three decades in Congress for demanding frugal spending with his "Golden Fleece" awards.
- "Over the years, my father had been frugal and never made large gifts to charity," Carol says in her affidavit.
- But the former Houston insurance executive said the Democratic ticket understands the needs of business and will fight the deficits with frugal management and an aggressive trade policy.
- Torres, 64, who attributes his frugal ways to growing up with 14 siblings, says he buys day-old baked goods and meats, generic groceries and "whatever's on sale."
- That's our way." The Dutchburns' ways _ modesty, hard work and thrift _ were common knowledge on the frugal little farms of Franklin County.
- But Boston television satirist Dick Flavin, who has been poking fun at the governor for 15 years, insists that there's plenty of material to work with in the governor's frugal ways.
- Carmine Grigoli, strategist for First Boston, says some of the most successful companies in the long term have been some of the most frugal.
- "I didn't spend hardly any money," said Luehr. "I didn't have any money to spend, not on this dumb pagoda anyway." Luehr's talent for frugal construction has been with him all his life.
- A self-described "bunch of frugal Yankees" donned protective suits emblazoned with the words "Pigeon Busters" and offered to shovel pigeon droppings out of the Town Hall attic for free.
- Safe to say, the carpets won't be fraying much longer at his tract home, frugal as he boasts of being.
- And rightly so, perhaps. Such frugal sources as we possess regarding him suggest that he is a wheeler-dealer: not a man of the people, but an aristocrat seeking to upstage rivals by engaging popular support.
- One day after warning that black marketeers in Iraq would be executed, Saddam urged Iraqi women to cut meat consumption in half and be frugal with clothing.
- "I didn't realize he was so frugal," said Ms. Rohrer, who is an administrative assistant at an investment management firm.
- Its first-year price tag is advertised as a frugal $2.5 billion, but like every new federal subsidy it would grow like Topsy.
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frugardite
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fruit
fruit agronomy
fruit and vegetable acid
fruit and vegetable d...
fruit and vegetable f...
fruit and vegetable f...
fruit and vegetable g...
fruit and vegetable h...
fruit and vegetable p...
fruit antisaptic paper
fruit basket
fruit bat
fruit bearing forest
fruit bearing habit
fruit bearing shoot
fruit belt
fruit biochemistry
fruit biology
fruit body
fruit bonbons
fruit bowl
fruit branch
fruit bud
fruit butter
fruit cake
fruit can
fruit canning
fruit case
fruit catcher
fruit caving
fruit character
fruit cocktail
fruit confection
fruit cooktail
fruit crossing
fruit crusher
fruit culture
fruit cup
fruit cutter
fruit cutting
fruit dehydrator
fruit dermatitis
fruit disease
fruit dish
fruit dot
fruit drop
fruit dropping
fruit dropping disease
fruit drops
fruit ecology
fruit economics
fruit entomology
fruit espalier
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