I would so much rather make frugal choices and be able to give freely than have a house full of all the coolest and newest "stuff."

我宁愿让自己做一个节俭的选择，让自己没有债务，也不愿意拥有一个满是最酷和最新东西的房子。

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But perhaps more important will be the emergence of an older, more mature, less frenetic, less consumerist, and more frugal society.

但也许更为重要的是一个久经沧桑、更为成熟、不再狂热、不再物质主义并且更为节俭的社会将出现在我们面前。

youdao

So far, so clever, but unlike the core concept of the car – the frugal hybrid drive – it is unlikely that the cost will ever be recouped by the owner.

到目前为止，该款车的设计不失为聪明，但与这款车的核心概念（即节能的混合动力驱动）所不同的是，这个功能的选配成本，车主是很难赚回来的。

youdao

Given that the merits of some of these provisions are debatable (to put it nicely), subjecting them to periodic review would seem to be the epitome of frugal budgeteering.

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Short-term goals: These ought to be a series of frugal experiments that generate learning the start-up can use to adjust what it does on the way to its long-term goal.

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The request by management in September for employees to print on both sides of paper came as part of a memo with a list of suggestions on ways to be frugal.

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