英语释义

• an inadequate payment;

  "they work all day for a mere pittance"

片语

bit咬（bite的过去式和过去分词）

driblet少量

英汉例句

• true, it was a pittance next to a budget deficit already soaring towards $2 trillion and 12% of gdp, a post-war record.

  这些预案被认为效率低下或是毫无必要。当然，与国会2万亿美元的预算赤字比起来，这只是凤毛麟角；现在的赤字已达gdp的12%，也是战后以来的最高水平。

• the only consolation is that tight restrictions on both political contributions and spending mean that general elections cost a pittance compared with those next door.

  唯一值得庆幸的是，加拿大严格限制政治献金以及选举开销，这意味者加拿大的选举花费与他们的邻居相比，仅仅是九牛一毛。

• gilbert should be thanking him too--the salary he doled out to james was a pittance compared to the victories and money that rolled in during his cleveland reign.

  吉尔伯特也应该感谢他，因为相对于詹姆斯为克利夫兰带来的胜利和金钱而言，吉尔伯特付给他的薪水可谓微薄至极。

• fund managers, who allocated a pittance to commodities a few years ago, now put up to 5% of their cash into them.

  同几年前的九牛一毛相比，现如今，基金经理将高达5%的现金都投入商品期货市场。

• the poorest 51 countries received just 8 per cent of total capital flows – a pittance when compared with the whole pie.

  最贫困的51个国家只获得了全部资本流动的8%-与整个蛋糕相比微乎其微。

• the 1.4m-plus foreigners, most of them from india and sri lanka and many still paid a pittance amid such riches, may one day demand better working conditions and rights.

  在这个富有的国度，外来人口主要来自印度和斯里兰卡，占一百四十余万人，他们中的一些人仍然收入微薄，或许某天，他们会要求提升工作条件并希望拥有更多的权力。

• the cost of providing a children’s form of viagra would be a pittance compared to the profits that pfizer would reap.

  同pfizer 从该协议中可获取的利润相比，提供为儿童设计的 「伟哥」的成本简直是小额施舍。

• this helps to explain why advertisers will only pay a pittance for page views on many social networks.

  这有助于解释为什么广告商按页面浏览量只付给许多社交网微薄的广告费。

• he found it. his wages in a steel factory in ohio were fatter and more predictable than the pittance he had earned coaxing cotton out of mississippi's soil.

  功夫不负有心人，最后他在俄亥俄的一家钢铁公司找到了份工作，他之前在密西西比州仅仅靠种玉米赚几个钱，而钢铁公司这份工作不仅薪水高，而且稳定。

• paypal started working with outside vendors, and by 2007 it was transacting $47 billion worth of business a year — still a pittance compared to the trillions that moved through financial institutions.

  贝宝开始与外界的卖方合作，到2007可以谈成一年470亿美元的生意，但与金融机构合作赚取的几万亿相比，仍然是一比小数目。

• but together they owned a mere 1.2 percent of the company, a pittance given the size of those investment companies.

  但是这两家合计仅拥有其1.2%的股份，考虑到这两家投资公司的规模，这点持有量实在少得多可怜。

• that is a pittance considering the $400 billion or so of losses and write-downs at the world’s banks from the credit crisis as a whole.

  考虑到世界各银行在信用危机中整体上遭遇了大约4000亿美元的损失和账面价值减少，日本银行的损失实在是微不足道。

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