My mother taught me to be thrifty.
我母亲教会我生活要节俭。
Born with a silver spoon in her mouth, she was taught by her parents to be hard-working and thrifty.
虽然出生在富贵之家，她的父母却教导她要勤俭节约。
What is so impressive about it, however, is not its lengthiness but rather the reverse — the thrifty compactness of its construction.
然而，令人印象深刻的不是它的冗长，恰恰相反——是它简洁紧凑的结构。
Her mother is a thrifty housewife.
她妈妈是一个节俭的主妇。
Are they rich because they're so thrifty?
他们富有，是因为他们非常节俭？
They are very careful, slow, practical and thrifty.
他们非常小心，沉稳，务实和节俭。
Only very thrifty children manage to fill up a money-box.
只有特别节俭的孩子能把存钱罐填满。
Parents are trying to encourage the children to be thrifty.
家长们在试着鼓励孩子节约。
Memories of hard years made the old woman excessively thrifty.
早年艰苦生活的回忆使这个妇人极度俭省。
Perhaps this thrifty nature even helped them make some of their money.
或许这些节俭的习惯也帮着他们挣了一些钱。
But when Banks failed in the 1930s, many thrifty people lost their savings.
不过，当1930年代银行大批倒闭时，许多节俭的人失去自己的积蓄。
That is thanks, the IMF says, to Estonia’s thrifty habits in public finances.
国际货币基金组织说，这一切有赖于爱沙尼亚一贯节俭的公共财政。
To live in a thrifty way, you need to pay attention to your day-to-day expenses.
若要节俭生活，你需要格外关注日常开支。
U.S. consumers shouldn't get too thrifty yet, but some spending restraint would be prudent.
消费者不应过度节俭，但适量的消费节制无疑是明智的。
Whereas many Americans are reasonably thrifty, the wealthiest group spends more than it earns.
大多数美国人都相当节俭，而最富有的那群人花得却比他们挣得还多。
One is to accept the range limit and design small, thrifty vehicles specialised for city use.
第一，接受有限行驶里程的缺点，制造小型经济型汽车供城市交通专用。
Scientists speculate that part of the reason so many of us are susceptible to layering on fat is due to the "thrifty gene."
科学家推断我们那么多人易于堆积脂肪的部分原因在于“节俭基因”。
Such thrifty sorts may also constantly cadge cigarettes, rather than buying their own, or regularly borrow cash for bus fares, but rarely pay it back.
这种节俭型的人可能也会时常讨要香烟，而不是自己去买，或者定期借钱付公交车车票，但是很少会还钱。
It is no secret that global spending must be rebalanced: indebted American consumers must cut back, while thrifty countries should spend more and save less.
毫无秘密可言，全球支出必须重新平衡：美国的负债消费必需得到遏制，节俭的国家应该减少储蓄，增加消费。
South Korean households, which have reduced their saving rate from 23% of disposable income in 1998 to only 3% last year, can hardly be accused of being overly thrifty.
在南韩，家庭储蓄率由1998年个人可支配收入的23%减少到去年的3%，这几乎不能被指责过分节俭。
The commuters include the French ambassador to the EU, a thrifty fellow who recently swapped the cavernous nine-bedroomed official residence for a flat near his office.
其中包括法国驻欧盟大使，他很是节俭，最近将其豪华的九室官邸换成了办公室附近的一处公寓。
The commuters include the French ambassador to the EU, a thrifty fellow who recently swapped the cavernous nine-bedroomed official residence for a flat near his office.
其中包括法国驻欧盟大使，他很是节俭，最近将其豪华的九室官邸换成了办公室附近的一处公寓。
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