meagre
美 [ˈmiɡər] 
英 [ˈmiːɡə(r)]
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英汉双解
1. | 少量且劣质的small in quantity and poor in quality |
| a meagre diet of bread and water 只有面包和水的简朴饮食 |
| She supplements her meagre income by cleaning at night. 她靠做夜间清洁工来补贴其微薄的收入。 |
英汉解释
adj. | 1. (人,动物等)瘦的;(土地)不毛的;粗陋的,贫弱的;思想贫乏的;枯燥的(作品等) |
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英英解释
例句
Will any of these measures help to lift France's growth rate from its recent meagre average of 2% a year?
所有这些措施有助于法国提高当前可怜的每年2%的经济增长率吗？
"Pensioners have no voice and are left to survive on a meagre allowance each week that most people would never manage on, " he said.
「退休老人没有声音，被迫每周靠著微薄的退休金维生，多数人光靠这点钱绝对没办法生活，」他说。
She said: 'The meagre revenue by government should be directed towards critical needs like health, antiretroviral drugs and education.
她表示：“政府收入原本就少得可怜，应该用到那些有迫切需要的地方，比如卫生、抗逆转录病毒药物以及教育等方面。”
Copying gives me access to an infinitely richer and more varied menu of ideas than if I had to limit myself to my own meagre store.
比起我自己腹中那点可怜的存货，抄袭能让我接触到无限丰富和多样的想法。
a month and his meagre salary is not enough to pay for the education she wants to give her children.
34美金），他可怜巴巴的收入不足以支付妻子想要给孩子所受的教育。
Oh, that soul was itself meagre, ghastly, and famished; and cruelty was the delight of that soul!
哦，这灵魂本身是可怕饥瘦；残忍也是那灵魂的乐趣！
I wonder, therefore, whether it was worthwhile to risk a selective default for such a meagre debt reduction effort?
因此，我很怀疑，为了这种力度欠佳的减债方案而承担选择性违约的风险是否值得。
"When you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind. "
“当你不能度量自己所言、不能用数字将它表达出来时，你的了解就是贫乏的，不能令人满意。”
The EU's military capability is meagre; its ability to stand up to Russian divide-and-rule tactics in energy security is feeble.
欧盟的军事实力不强；与俄罗斯在能源安全方面分而治之的策略也是很薄弱的。
He was professor of physics in the high school, possessor of a large family, a meagre salary, and a select fund of parrot-learned knowledge.
他是中学的物理老师，养着一大家人，薪水微薄，有一肚子精挑细选的人云亦云的知识。
That compares with a meagre doubling in the price of copper this year and a 77% increase in the Shanghai stockmarket.
与此相比，上涨不过一倍的期货铜，以及上升约77%的上海股市简直微不足道。
Advertisements for PCs already tout their meagre energy consumption just as prominently as their number-crunching prowess.
个人电脑广告已经开始像兜售其超级运算能力一样推销其低能耗的性能。
Given that these are so meagre, this might seem to be an unpromising line of inquiry.
既然他们是那么的贫困，看起来这似乎是一个没有好结果的调查。
Mr Cui, a retired soldier , was unable to find work in his native province and eked out a meagre living by baking sausages .
崔英杰是一位退伍军人，他无法在家乡找到工作，靠出售烤香肠勉强维持着贫苦的生活。
Even if the recovery can be sustained this year, GDP growth is likely to be a meagre 1% or so.
即使今年能够继续复苏，GDP的增长可能是微乎其微的1%。
In 1990, before economic reforms began to work, it accounted for a meagre 3 per cent of global manufacturing.
在1990年之前，经济改革起效之前，全球制造业中，中国仅占了微薄的3%。
In the course of time the crowd thinned out to a meagre handful.
过了一段时间，围观的人群渐渐散去，只剩下寥寥几个人。
Sharp falls in the price of oil and other commodities slowed price rises to a meagre 1% from a year earlier, compared with 1. 9% in October.
随着石油和其他大宗商品价格的大幅下降，商品的同比价格上涨幅度仅为不到1%，而10月份上涨幅度还在1.
No one much complains about the minimum wage today; it has improved the meagre lot of hundreds of thousands of low-paid workers.
如今，对于最低工资没有人有太多的抱怨。它已经改善了成千上万名工人微波的收入。
From St. Mark, whose account of the Precursor's life is very meagre , no new detail can be gathered.
在马可来看，这位先驱者的生命是非常贫弱的，没有新的细节可以收集。
Salaries are often so meagre and paid so late that charities working in prisons sometimes offer food and soap to warders as well as inmates.
工资如此之低，其发放也是一拖再拖，以至于活动于各个监狱的慈善团体有时还要给囚犯甚至典狱长发配食物与肥皂。
At least that would offer the meagre comfort of simplicity.
至少那样能让人感到简单生活下一些少有的舒适感。
In that meagre roommate snore, I can only hear childish delicate and homogeneous bedroom outside leaf breath!
在那室友微薄的的鼾声中，我只能听见寝室外树叶稚嫩和均匀的呼吸！
Such meagre income shall not be able to support a spacious work space downtown.
这样微薄的利润将不足以维持一个位于市中心的工作站。
Justin Brown is an abbot at a Benedictine abbey that supplements its meagre income by making and selling simple wooden coffins.
贾斯丁·布朗是一个本笃会修道院的一名院长，通过制作、出售简单的木质棺材来增加微薄的收入。
To supplement their meagre income, often he used to go fishing with his friends.
为了添补其微薄的收入，他经常与朋友们一起去钓鱼。
She grabbed meagre meals when she had a free moment . But Luyuan felt liberated from the rigid and demanding schedule of industry .
有空的时候，就草草扒拉几口饭。但李芦媛却感觉从工厂僵化、繁重的日程中解脱了出来。
According to Barclays Capital, the annualised real return since the start of 2003 has been a meagre 1%.
据巴克莱资本的计算，自2003年以来，其年化真实回报率仅为1%。
By importing savings from abroad, poor countries can invest more than they are able to set aside from their own meagre output.
通过从国外引进资金，比起他们可以通过勒紧裤腰带省出来的那点钱，他们可以进行更多的投资。
With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.
关于奢侈品和舒适品，聪明人往往过着比贫困者更为简单和朴素的生活。
And yet what is true is that Mr Obama's stress on a foreign policy of engagement and "reaching out" has delivered fairly meagre results.
但一个不争的事实是，奥巴马所强调的接触与“伸出手”的外交政策收效甚微。
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。
In the early stages of development people destroy forests for a meagre living.
在发展早期，人们为了糊口而毁林开荒。
Then, a few years ago, the plant went bankrupt and shut down. All the workers were let go with only meagre severance pay.
几年前，工厂破产倒闭，所有工人被解散，只得到了微薄的遣散金。
biggest retailer, needs China to help offset meagre sales growth in mature markets.
作为全球最大的零售商，沃尔玛在成熟市场的销售额增长乏力，因此需要借助中国市场来弥补。
During that time, his wife Lee relies entirely on the meagre salary to live, even when played a "family men and women. "
那段时间，李安完全靠妻子微薄的薪水度日，甚至当起了“家庭妇男”。
There's no nation under the sun that doesn't try to protect its military secrets, however meagre , from foreign powers.
世界上没有哪一个国家不会尽力对外保守军事秘密，无论其军事力量如何弱小。
But opportunities in heavily regulated financial and professional service sectors, including law and accounting, remain meagre.
但在受到严密监管的金融、及法律和会计等专业服务领域，机会依然很少。
Those sums are due to fall soon, when a temporary boost expires. Even the current package is meagre.
当临时支援到期后，该救济金额就会减少，尽管目前该救济金额很微薄。
Frustrated at the area's meagre manufacturing wages and cost of living, her husband and child had returned home.
制造业工资如此微薄，生活成本却不低，她丈夫心灰意冷之下，带着孩子回了家乡。
