1·But over the years, even as he drove his wife nuts with his parsimony, he harbored a deep secret.
虽然这些年来，他的吝啬甚至使他妻子发疯，他心底却深藏着一个秘密。
2·I hope the reader will not fail to count it to my credit that I implicitly believed her, and inwardly deplored the parsimony of the Creator in the matter of my making.
我希望读者不要不把这个算做我的优点，因为我私下相信了她的话，暗暗地悲叹造物者在造我的时候怎会那样吝啬。
3·Thrift, neither like extravagance, nor like parsimony, is a doctrine of the mean.
俭是一种中道 ，既不同于奢侈 ，又不能归结为吝啬。
4·Thrift, neither like extravagance, nor like parsimony, is a doctrine of the mean.
俭是一种中道，既不同于奢侈，又不能归结为吝啬。
5·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 close dealing implied.
人家虽然没有明说，自己总觉得这种掂斤播两的交易未免太吝啬，当时脸都躁红了。