thrift是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 节约， 节俭，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the pursuit of which, by thrift and management, I might reasonably expect, in about two hundred years, to be the wealthiest man in the kingdom.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The disposition of -everything in the rooms, from the largest object to the least; the arrangement of colours, the elegant variety and contrast obtained by thrift in trifles, by delicate hands, clear eyes, and good sense; were at once so pleasant in themselves, and so expressive of their originator, that, as Mr. Lorry stood looking about him, the very chairs and tables seemed to ask him, with something of that peculiar expression which he knew so well by this time, whether he approved?
-- Nor, how the lightest echo of their united home, di-rected by herself with such a wise and elegant thrift that it was more abundant than any waste, was music to her.
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