1590s, "pertaining to management of a household," perhaps shortened from economical, or else from French économique or directly from Latin oeconomicus "of domestic economy," from Greek oikonomikos "practiced in the management of a household or family" (also the name of a treatise by Xenophon on the duties of domestic life), hence, "frugal, thrifty," from oikonomia "household management" (see economy (n.)). Meaning "relating to the science of economics" is from 1835 and now is the main sense, economical retaining the older one of "characterized by thrift."
雙語例句
1. The United States plans to tighten the economic sanctions currently in place.
美國計劃加大現(xiàn)有經(jīng)濟制裁的力度。
來自柯林斯例句
2. President Castro has warned Cubans to prepare for a profound economic emergency.
卡斯特羅主席已經(jīng)提醒古巴人民為嚴重的經(jīng)濟危急狀況做準備。
來自柯林斯例句
3. The country's economic plight is strangling its scientific institutions.
該國的經(jīng)濟困境阻礙了其科研機構(gòu)的工作進展。
來自柯林斯例句
4. The army was ideologically opposed to the kind of economic solution proposed.
軍方從意識形態(tài)角度出發(fā)反對所提議的經(jīng)濟方案。
來自柯林斯例句
5. Last year, economic growth tailed off to below four percent.