frugal
英 [ˈfruː.ɡəl]
美 [ˈfruː.ɡəl]
1. [吃饭只吃]腐乳够了.
2. 只吃豆腐乳(就)够了。
3. 谐音“腐乳够” => 吃饭只吃腐乳就够了。
frugal 节俭的来自fructus, 果实,词源同fruit. 原义为丰产的,丰富的,衍生词义节约的,节俭的,即节俭才能富裕之义。比较thrive, 繁盛,thrift,节俭。
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frugal: [16] Paradoxically, frugal comes from a source that meant ‘fruitful’. English borrowed it from Latin frūgālis, which was derived from the adjective frūgī ‘useful’. This in turn was the dative case of the noun frūx ‘fruit, value’, which came from the same base as frūctus, the source of English fruit. The links in the semantic chain seem to have been that something that was ‘useful, valuable, or productive’ was also ‘profitable’, and that in order to be ‘profitable’ it must be ‘economical’ – hence frugal’s connotations of ‘careful expenditure’.
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- frugal (adj.)
- "economical in use," 1590s, from Middle French frugal, from Latin frugalis, from undeclined adjective frugi "useful, proper, worthy, honest; temperate, economical," originally dative of frux (plural fruges) "fruit, produce," figuratively "value, result, success," related to fructus (see fruit), from PIE *bhrug- "agricultural produce," also "to enjoy." Sense evolved in Latin from "useful" to "profitable" to "economical." Related: Frugally.
- 1. She lives a frugal life.
- 她生活俭朴。
- 2. He was a VIP, but he had a frugal life.
- 他是位要人, 但生活俭朴.
- 3. We're planning a frugal Christmas.
- 我们正计划过一个花钱少的圣诞节.
- 4. She lived a careful and frugal life.
- 她过着谨慎、节俭的生活.
- 5. The old woman is frugal to the extreme.
- 那老妇人节约到了极点.