英语释义

• barely adequate;

  "a meager allowance"

• deficient in amount or quality or extent;

  "meager resources"

  "meager fare"

片语

meager r瘦削的

meager spacemenger空间

meagre meager不太详细的

Too meager微薄太少

meager profit[经] 微利

meager treatment待遇菲薄

meager hospitality薄待

Meager Leg回向为反向

meager fare不足的费用

meager pay微薄的工资

英汉例句

• it gave him security and a sense of well being, hope and dreams of a future filled with good food and a life different from this meager existence.

  它让约翰觉得安心和幸福感，希望和一个充满美味食物的未来，一个完全不同于他现在贫穷，饑饿的生存现状的世界。

• other elderly people resort to petty theft to increase their meager purchasing power.

  一些老人小偷小摸，以增加他们微薄的购买力。

• not only do the vast majority of elderly chinese have little more than their meager savings, but today’s workers have pensions so measly as to be irrelevant.

  绝大多数的老人除了他们微薄的积蓄别无其他，并且今天的工人的退休金也是少得如此可怜。

• we knew we had to scale the transcoding, but it was of primary importance that we not have to worry about filling up the meager hard disks on our web servers.

  我们知道我们必须要规模化转码过程，但最重要的是我们不必再担心我们的web服务器上的微薄的硬盘会被挤爆了。

• actors would gather outside what was left of the building to pick up their meager salaries.

  演员们不得不聚集在大楼残骸外面来获取微薄的收入。

• we never complain that our wages are low, we never lose our mental balance due to those big townhouses you bought with the money you took from my meager wage.

  我们没有因为工资微薄而抱怨过，没有因为你们拿着从我微薄工资里扣的税，住着连体排屋而心里失衡过。

• do i ask you to come into my workplace and supplement my meager income?

  我问过你来我的办公室看看，然后补充一下我贫瘠的收入嘛？

• he was very good to me, gave me some research work to supplement my meager income, and invited me to his house for dinner.

  他对我非常不错，让我做一些研究工作来贴补我那微薄的收入，他还邀请过我到他家去吃饭。

• most western german states allow tuition fees of a meager €500 per term, but universities 「can’t plan long term because they don’t know if the next government will take it away,」 says ms wintermantel.

  mswintermantel说：「很多德国西部的州政府允许对每个学生每个学期收取微薄的500欧元学费，但是那些大学不能做长期计划，因为他们不知道下届政府是否会取消这项规定。」

• during their six- to 12-week voyages they lived on meager rations.

  在6到12周的航行中，他们依靠微薄的口粮生存。

• residents turn to the hawkers for quick meals and cheap goods, and the vendors rely on the meager earnings to scratch out a living.

  居民开始在买小贩的快餐和便宜的商品，而商贩们则依赖于微薄的收入维持生存。

• it is because these products are cheap, and given people「s meager salaries these ersatz goods are often their only option.

  因为这些产品价格低廉，他们微薄的收入只能去消费这些假冒伪劣产品。

• about now, new ceo gorman is probably learning that the meager profits of a retail brokerage can」t pay for all those monster wall street bonuses.

  眼下，这位大摩新掌门或许意识到了来自零售经纪业务的微薄盈利还不够华尔街薪酬的血盆大口塞牙缝。

• indeed, reagan ushered in an era in which a small minority grew vastly rich, while working families saw only meager gains.

  的确，里根引入了一个新的时代，在这个时代里一小部分人迅速地累计财富，而工薪家庭却只能得到微薄的收入。

• it was medieval european monks who introduced scientific brewing techniques in an effort to produce a nutritious beverage to supplement their meager diets.

  正是中世纪欧洲的僧侣们引进科学的啤酒酿造技术，制造有营养的饮料，从而补充了他们贫乏的饮食。

• unemployed factory workers often return to their hometown, because there is zero benefit of them staying in the city, while they could earn a meager wage in their hometown.

  失业的工厂工人通常会返回自己的家乡，因为留在城市中，他们的不会获得任何的福利，然而回到家乡，他们却还能挣到一份微薄的工资。

• for example, 「antizen」 refers to the group of college graduates who, earning a meager salary and living in small rented apartments, are like the tiny and laborious ants.

  例如，「antizen(蚁族)」是指那些像微小而又勤劳的蚂蚁一样挣取微薄薪水、居住在很狭小的出租房的毕业大学生。

• like the gentleman who fondly lectures the beggar before dropping a meager coin into his jar, they came to africa with an innate sense of superiority.

  他们带着一种天生的优越感来到非洲，如同那个把一枚少得可怜的硬币投进罐子前温情地对乞丐说教一番的绅士。

• it is well known that high food prices hurt consumers, especially the poorest, who routinely spend half or more of their meager incomes on food.

  人们都知道食品价格高涨会伤害消费者，尤其是最贫困的群体───他们每天要从微薄的薪水中分出一大半花在食物上。

• berea is ranked 67th in u.s. news's 2011 rankings of best liberal arts colleges and only admits students hailing from meager financial backgrounds.

  伯里亚学院在u.s.news的2011年文理学院排名中位居第67名，并且只录取出身贫乏的学生。

相似词

skimpy不足的；吝啬的

thin细小部分

sparse稀疏的；稀少的

lean(Lean) （丹）利恩（人名）

poor(Poor) （美）普尔（人名）

scanty缺乏的；吝啬的；仅有的；稀疏的

slight轻视，忽略；怠慢

scant减少；节省；限制

lacking缺少，没有，不足（lack 的现在分词）

insufficient不足的；不能胜任的，缺乏能力的

beggarly赤贫的；像乞丐的

skimpy不足的；吝啬的

poor(Poor) （美）普尔（人名）

exiguous稀少的；细小的

scarcead 仅仅；几乎不；几乎没有

inadequate不充分的，不适当的

sparse稀疏的；稀少的

bare露出，使赤裸

scanty缺乏的；吝啬的；仅有的；稀疏的

emaciated憔悴；消瘦下去（emaciate的过去分词）

scraggy瘦弱的；凸凹不平的；皮包骨的

rawboned骨瘦如柴的；瘦削的

lean(Lean) （丹）利恩（人名）

undernourished供以不足的营养（undernourish的过去分词形式）

thin细小部分

gaunt(Gaunt)人名；(英)冈特

scrawny骨瘦如柴的

bony(Bony)人名；(法)博尼

lank瘦的；平直的；长而柔软的；细长的

skinny瘦骨嶙峋的；紧身的；（非正式）低脂肪的

lanky瘦长的

underfed不充分供料（underfeed的过去式和过去分词）

puny弱小的；微不足道的；微小的

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rich油腻的，含有很多脂肪

plump饱满的；胖乎乎的

stout(Stout) （美）斯托特（人名）

fat(Fat)人名；(法、西、塞)法特；(东南亚国家华语)发

ample(Ample)人名；(西)安普尔

plentiful丰富的；许多的；丰饶的；众多的