英语释义

• deficient in amount or quality or extent;

  "meager resources"

  "meager fare"

片语

spare额外的，备用的；多余的；瘦高的，瘦长的；简朴的；未装饰的；空閑的；少量的；节约的

thin细小部分

meagre meagre瘦的

meagre stipend微博的津贴

meager meagre贫乏的

Meagre Profit微薄利润

lean(Lean) （丹）利恩（人名）

meagre clay瘦粘土

meagre e瘦的

poor(Poor) （美）普尔（人名）

meagre feeling软感

Pathetically meagre少得可怜

The meagre微薄

英汉例句

• kevina has no choice but to work relentlessly to earn enough for her family「s meagre needs.

  kevina别无选择，只有不停地工作才能挣足够的钱满足家庭微薄的需求。

• four days after the storm, a bunch of soldiers arrived, handed out meagre rations and then mostly just loafed by the roadside.

  一队军人在风暴后的第四天到达该地，在分发了少量的救济之后就基本上沿着路边转悠。

• just over half of the population lives on less than 120% of this meagre poverty line.

  超过一半的人口生活在这条本来钱就很少的贫困线的120%以下。

• but why would investors accept meagre yields if they expected a vigorous recovery?

  只是如果投资者期望复苏强劲，为什么还要接受这样微薄的收益呢？

• the poor in gansu and yunnan, by contrast are at risk of having their meagre property confiscated if they fail to remain within birthing quotas.

  而相比之下甘肃和云南的贫穷家庭如果违反了生育限制，则要承担为数不多的财产被没收的风险。

• but he has also ordered cuts in 「non-essential」 education and health spending, as well as in the meagre free-food rations that cubans receive from the state.

  而劳尔·卡斯特罗还指示要削减「非必要的」教育和卫生支出，同时也要降低国家救济民众的微薄免费食物配额。

• retail sales showed meagre growth last month as cash-strapped consumers cut back spending despite summer sale discounts.

  零售业数据显示上个月的微薄增长是因为资金短缺的消费者无视夏季大减价依然消减开支。

• when walls of seawater came crashing down on these vulnerable fishing and farming families six months ago, many saw their meagre livelihoods washed away.

  六个月前，当海水铸成的高墻压向这些渔民和农民家庭时，许多人眼看着他们贫弱的生计被沖走。

• meagre returns have not helped.

  基金微薄的回报也帮不上什么忙。

• i saw for myself the poor conditions of work and the desperate staff shortages, compounded by meagre and uncertain salaries.

  我亲眼看到极差的工作条件和职员的严重短缺，还有微薄和不稳定的工资。

• those who do keep their jobs blog bitterly about meagre bonuses and relocations under duress (「it’s shanghai, dubai, mumbai or bye-bye,」 as the saying goes).

  那些保住了饭碗的律师们也在博客中痛诉自己的微薄奖金以及迫于压力的外派。 （常言道，「上海、迪拜、孟买或者拜拜。」）

• the differences we see in the diversity of species and numbers of individuals may well be related to how they are able to process and share out a rather common but meagre food supply.

  我们在多样性物种和个体数量中看到的差别也许与它们如何能够加工并分享相当普通而微薄的食物供给有关。

• now that it was dead, however, i was jolly well going to eat it — so we spent all evening smoking and salting the meat to supplement our meagre supplies.

  虽然它已经死了，然而我实在不想吃它。因此我们花了整个晚上来熏烤、用盐腌它的肉以补充我们的贫乏的补给。

• low prices and meagre earnings abroad;

  海外售价太低、利润微薄；

• ethiopia has one of africa’s lowest rates of mobile-phone ownership. income per head is one of the most meagre in the continent.

  此外，埃塞俄比亚也是非洲国家中移动电话占有率最低的国家之一，人头收入也是非洲最微薄的。

• in the early stages of development people destroy forests for a meagre living.

  在经济发展的初期，人们砍伐森林仅能获得微薄的收益。

• the latest analysis, published in nature on december 23rd, removes any doubt—and adds a tooth to the meagre stock of evidence from the new species that modern science is able to examine.

  12月23日发表在《自然》科技期刊上的最新分析排除了所有疑问——而且为该新人种原本贫乏的证据增添了一颗现代科学能够检验的牙齿化石。

• thousands of kikuyus fled their tiny shacks, escaping through the nearby ngong forest with dirty bundles of meagre possessions to take refuge in nairobi」s showground beyond.

  成千上万的基库尤人民逃离了他们小小的陋屋，他们穿越附近的ngong森林，携带着满是泥泞的贫乏的财物到达远方内罗毕的贫民窟避难。

• the answer is that they don’t lose all that often, despite a meagre tally of one world cup, 43 years ago, and no european championships.

  回答：英格兰其实也没有那么经常输啦，虽然只有在43年前得到了一尊世界杯，而从未「染指」欧洲冠军。

• that is because it has lost most of its meagre revenues, 85% of which came from in or near the capital.

  那是因为它失去了大部分少量的财政收入，85%的收入来自首都或首都附近地区。

• those most staunchly opposed were women in their 20s, many of whom earn meagre wages. some of those could expect to be covered by exemptions.

  20出头的妇女尤为坚决反对，因为她们的薪酬微薄，而一些妇女期望可以免税。

• by january 2009, seven months after mr verwaayen’s departure (he is now the boss of alcatel-lucent, a telecoms-equipment firm), bt said even those meagre profits had been seriously overstated.

  mrverwaayen先生离职7个月后（他现在是alcatel-lucent的老总，一个电信设备公司）的2009年1月，bt说那些微薄的利润也是高估出来的。

• others grumble at their meagre pay: a typical teacher, with almost 25 years’ experience, earns only around $650 a month.

  其他人抱怨他们工资微薄：一个典型的有着25年教龄的教师一个月只能挣650美元左右。

• he had nothing save his meagre half-pay as chief of squadron.

  他除了那份极微薄的骑兵队队长的半薪之外，什么都没有。

相似词

exiguous稀少的；细小的

light光；光线；灯；打火机；领悟；浅色；天窗

niggardlyad 吝啬地，小气地；很少量地

poor(Poor) （美）普尔（人名）

scant减少；节省；限制

scanty缺乏的；吝啬的；仅有的；稀疏的

scarcead 仅仅；几乎不；几乎没有

skimp少的；不足的

skimpy不足的；吝啬的

slender细长的；苗条的；微薄的

slim苗条的；修长的；微小的；差的

spare额外的，备用的；多余的；瘦高的，瘦长的；简朴的；未装饰的；空閑的；少量的；节约的

sparing适度的；节俭的；缺乏的

sparse稀疏的；稀少的

stingy吝啬的，小气的；有刺的；缺乏的

相反词

abundant丰富的；充裕的；盛产

ample(Ample)人名；(西)安普尔

bountiful丰富的；慷慨的；宽大的

copious丰富的；很多的；多产的

generous慷慨的，大方的；宽宏大量的；有雅量的

liberal(Liberal)人名；(葡)利贝拉尔

plenteous丰富的；丰饶的

plentiful丰富的；许多的；丰饶的；众多的