meager

meager

美 [ˈmiɡər] 　英 [ˈmiːɡə(r)]

• adj.(人,动物等)瘦的；(土地)不毛的；贫弱的；思想贫乏的
• 网络不足的；微薄；微薄的

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Her father earned a meager living as a truck driver, her mother was an office assistant.

靓颖的父亲是一名收入微薄的货车司机，母亲是普通员工。

Superficially, Korean people seem to be tough, but deep down inside, they have been proven meager.

韩国人表面上看起来不可一世，自称最强硬，但骨子里却被证明是懦弱无能。

Individual power is pitifully meager; she oscillates between feeling good and bad, as if she knows that this is a never-ending movement.

个人力量何其渺小，她心情忽高忽低，彷佛知道这是一场没完没了的运动。

The last time such a meager increase did not coincide with a recession came in the 1950s.

在如此不给力的就业岗位创造增长速度下却没发生经济衰退，那还是20世纪50年代的事了。

I was able to catch thus a meager glimpse of the world of drama, and I shall never forget the delight of that moment.

这样，我可以获得对梦幻世界微弱的一瞥。我将永志不忘那个时刻的愉快。

Your meager Jedi training is not enough to assure your success against the Dark Woman. Only the power of the dark side will destroy her.

你的那些绝地训练不足以保证能够击败暗女。只有黑暗面才能干掉她。

He comes to the market when prices are lowest, with the meager fruits of his hard labor, just after the harvest, because he has no choice.

正当他收割完，带着辛苦劳作换来的少得可怜的农作物来到市场时，却正值物价最低，因为他没有选择。

Eventually, his parents had to invest more money to help their only son eke out a meager living by running his own electronics store.

最终，王建海的父母不得不再次掏腰包资助儿子开了家电器商店，勉强维持生计。

Not only was it a master piece but it was also done despite meager resources.

看来它不仅是一件钩编杰作，而且还是在纱线短缺的条件下完成的。

They had become so attached to the meager rewards of cruelty and petty power that they did not even remember how to be any other way.

他们已经附属于残忍暴行和琐碎权力所带来的微不足道的报酬，以致于他们完全不记得如何以另一种方式存在。

By doing so they have made you continue to toil and work hard for what is often a meager existence.

他们这么做使得你们为了微薄的工资而辛苦的工作。

It was an older home in a section of the valley where people with meager income found affordable shelter.

这是山谷区一座老旧的房子。收入微薄的家庭常在这里找一个能负担得起的栖身之所。

it used to eat of his meager fare, and drink from his cup, and lie in his bosom.

小羊以前吃他贫乏的食物，甚至从他的杯子里喝水，躺在他的怀里。

Rodriguez said his monthly government ration card plus his and his wife's meager salaries only covered two weeks' worth of food.

他表示自己的政府月配给卡加上夫妻两人微薄的工资仅够支持两个星期的食物。

They were on the edge of malnutrition no matter when it was at the best of times or the meager harvest.

他们无论是在景况最好的时候还是在歉收的时候都濒临于营养不良。

The data are in sharp contrast to the United States, with its consumer-focused economy and meager savings rate.

这些数据与经济以消费者为中心而储蓄率微乎其微的美国形成鲜明对比。

Stocks of developed countries like the U. S. can appear meager in comparison to those in emerging markets.

与新兴市场相比，美国等发达国家的股市回报可能相形见绌。

Tommy told me to watch the position, which effectively meant that I had my first -- albeit meager -- trading position at Morgan Stanley.

汤米让我盯着这个头寸，也就是说，这是我在摩根斯坦利的第一笔交易。

Here hope that by his own meager power, slowly learning and upgrading of people watch magic atmosphere.

在此希望通过他自己的微薄之力，慢慢的研究魔术并且提高观众们欣赏魔术的水平和氛围。

Do you think such an exalted Lamb paid merely a small price with a meager sacrifice for our sins?

难道你认为如此高贵的羔羊为我们的罪作过的牺牲不足，付出的赎价尚小吗？

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。

The incident itself was very meager.

事情本身不过是芝麻大小。

He eked out his meager pay by giving private lessons ; Braque eked out his collages with charcoal .

他通过做家教来补充他的不高的工资；布拉克用。

I knew he scratched out a meager living doing odd jobs, so it seemed funny when he asked me if we needed anything.

我知道他靠打零工过日子，生活相当艰苦，所以，当他问我们是否需要什么的时候，事情显得很滑稽。

Little wonder, then, that market-share juggernaut Lenovo Group is accorded such a meager valuation.

因此，市场份额霸主联想集团（LenovoGroup）被给予如此低的估值就不足为奇了。

The meager grant of the Commons had by no means put an end to his financial distresses.

下议院通过的那一点微薄的赐资根本无从解决他经济上的困难。

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。

China is a developing country with a large population, a meager heritage and an underdeveloped economy, especially in the rural areas.

中国是发展中，人口多，底子薄，经济不发达，农村不发达。

It's a meager amount of money, but the guides fear that if they charge more, they won't attract any customers at all.

尽管价格已经非常低，但是导游们还是担心，如果价格调涨就无法吸引顾客上门。

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。

and a memory trace of a sense datum is too meager an affair to do much good.

但对感觉材料的记忆痕迹是太微弱了，并没有什么用处。

Today my bills are a meager two or three pages, at most.

如今我的话费单最多才两三页。

They earn wages that seem meager by developed-world standards but are enough to keep new recruits streaming through its gates.

他们的工资按发达国家标准少的可怜，但却足以在中国招募到一批又一批的新工人。

What China earned is only the meager labor service's fee, but the foreign capitals plunder the most profits.

中国赚取的只是微薄的代工费，而外资却掠走了大部分的利润。

While Chomp's site is a bit on the meager side, Appolicious gives you a meatier selection of app recommendations.

Chomp网站的内容略显贫乏，相比之下，Appolicious给出的建议就要丰富一些。

My life was nothing more than solidarity and like a trilogy of heaven, earth and hell with meager values left.

我这辈子，经历了天堂、地狱、人间三部曲，充其量不过是一场孤单的人生，没有什么意义和价值。

Perhaps the meager profit time and considerable profit space, has always been between the weak and the wise game of "relativity" .

也许，微利时代与可观的利润空间，从来都是弱者与智者之间博弈的“相对论”。

Miss Martha became concerned; her sympathetic heart ached to add some delicacy to his meager purchase, but her courage failed.

这不由得令玛莎小姐担心起来；她那颗善良的心真想给那可怜的人加些美味食品，但她还是没有勇气。

they might look meager and wizened , but it was related that they had in their time fought twenty duels or been loved by ten princesses.

他们可能看上去虽然干瘪，形容枯槁，但据说在年轻的时候，曾经参加过廿次决斗，或者曾经获得十位公主的青睐。

The Tibetans can only attain the rank of junior officer and earn a meager salary compared to their Indian counterparts.

藏人只能达到低级军官的军衔，与其印度同行相比，赚取微薄的工资。

Coupled with the affect of grow apace of market economy and global economics, meager profit will become to a reality problem.

伴随着市场经济的快速发展以及经济全球化的影响，微利将是我们要长期面对的一个客观现实问题。

With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meager life than the poor.

对于奢侈和舒适，最明智的人生活的要比穷人更加简单，朴素。