| 英语单词 | thrift |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [θrɪft] 美 [θrɪft] |
| 中文释义 | n.节俭；节约 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Industry and thrift favor success. (2) Thrift is engrafted in his character. (3) Thrift has become the prevailing practice. (4) A businessman must wed.efficiency to thrift. (5) Thrift is a habit of outstanding artists. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 勤劳和节俭有助于成功。 (2) 他已经节俭成性。 (3) 节约成风。 (4) 企业家必须于效率兴节约相结合。 (5) 优秀的艺术家都善于节约。 |
| vocabulary简明 | 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. |
| vocabulary扩展 | 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. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]节俭；节省；节约 Thrift is the quality and practice of being careful with money and not wasting things. [approval]
2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]储蓄银行 A thrift or a thrift institution is a kind of savings bank. [AM 美] [BUSINESS 商] |
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