This would penalise the thrifty man, who had saved during his life as a public servant, as against the spendthrift. 来自 Gamblers and spendthrifts destroyed the patrimony of some families, while thrifty , lucky, or wise managers could substantially expand their estates. 来自 Cambridge English Corpus The thrifty , sober, careful, disciplined entrepreneur was, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, inextricably mixed with the uncontrolled, reckless idealist. 来自 Cambridge English Corpus Thus, the thrifty phenotype hypothesis can be envisaged as an altered programming of growth and metabolism that aids survival pre- and early postnatally (fig001nhc). 来自 Cambridge English Corpus I am certain that in practice that will leave untouched and untrammeled, and undisturbed every company which is carrying on a thrifty , far-sighted, straightforward business. 来自

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Why clobber everybody else, large and small, profligate or thrifty , in the same way and all at once? 来自

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While some squatters bemoaned drunken shepherds on their sprees, others despaired of their inability to rise above the squalor of shepherding to become thrifty yeomen farmers, even squatters. 来自 Cambridge English Corpus