| Front | thrift |
|---|---|
| Pron | [θrɪft] |
| Back | 【THRIFT】 Her thrift saved them enough money to buy a house. 她的节俭使她们存了足够的钱去买房子。 【重点词汇】 thrift n. 节俭 反: waste |
| Vocab | thriftextreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily
Thrift means being very careful about how much money you spend. Reusing the same tea bag ten times so as not to waste money is a kind of thrift. The word thrift originally referred to fortune and has come to mean the act of being economical; a thrifty person, or someone who practices thrift, is likely to be fortunate in the sense that he has savings. At a thrift store, you will find inexpensive clothing. You probably don’t want to exercise thrift when deciding on something important, like which brain surgeon to use. You may also find thrift on sunlit mountaintops, in the form of a slender-leaved plant with pink flowers. All forms of 'thrift' will appear on average once every 877 pages. thrift thriftless thrifty thriftlessly thriftlessness thriftily thriftiness |
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