meager
英 [ˈmiːgə]
美 [ˈmigər]
adj. 贫瘠的；不毛的; 瘦的
COCA.9607
英英释义
adj
- deficient in amount or quality or extent
- meager resources
- meager fare
双语例句
- Their food supply is meager.
他们的食品供给少得可怜。 - A: I need to find to part-time job to supplement my meager salary.
我得找份兼职，以弥补我这可怜巴巴的工资。 - It was from Granny's conversations, year after year, that the meager details of Grandpa's life came to me.
年复一年，我从姥姥的谈话中对姥爷的生活琐事有了不太详细的了解。 - People who do well financially ask different questions as they look at investments than people who produce meager rewards.
善于理财地人和小打小闹的人在投资机会面前，所问出的问题是不一样的。 - His meager allotment of gas had to be saved for emergencies.
他分到的那一点点煤气必须留着急用。 - Local governments have long had to tap other sources of income to supplement their meager share of the country's taxes.
地方政府长久以来就不得不开拓其他收入来源，以补充他们在国家税收当中可以得到的微薄份额。 - To eke out her meager pay, Betty turned to writing.
贝蒂为了弥补微薄的工资收入，搞起写作来。 - With the assistance of several meager advances from the bookseller who was to bring it out, he succeeded.
书商给他预支了几笔数目不大的酬金，帮助他取得了成功。 - He had to support his family with his meager income.
他只能靠微薄的收入来养家。 - Yet, sincerity and hard work had yielded only meager returns, and I was willing to try anything.
不过既然从前的热诚和辛劳回报甚微，我什么都愿意尝试一番。