Thrifty

(adj.) careful and diligent in the use of resources .

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• I told my wife, she had been too thrifty, for I found she had starved herself and her daughter to nothing. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Colonel Hector McTavish, and she and her mother played for Bute and won him at Harrowgate), she had been a prudent and thrifty wife to him. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• In this cheap and thrifty way Sir Pitt tries to pay off his debt to his family. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Some thrifty housewives economize by utilizing the cooling effects of evaporation. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.

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