meager

1. His meager allotment of gas had to be saved for emergencies.
   他分到的那一点点煤气必须留着急用。
2. Their food supply is meager.
   他们的食品供给少得可怜。
3. In fact, Pandit stuck with the meager check longer than he had to.
   事实上，潘伟迪拿1美元年薪的时间已超出了他应信守的时间。
4. The debit card offers meager rewards.
   这张借记卡提供的回报极其微薄。
5. With meager funding, they had to use army personnel and civilians to tend to many parks and monuments.
   因为微薄的资金投入，他们不得不借用军队人员和平民来照管公园和博物馆。
6. Yet, sincerity and hard work had yielded only meager returns, and I was willing to try anything.
   不过既然从前的热诚和辛劳回报甚微，我什么都愿意尝试一番。
7. Low rates help this process by effectively reducing the value of money invested today-think of the meager interest you get from your bank-and increasing the importance of future returns.
   低利率有助于投资者着眼长期，因为它实际上降低了今天所投入资金的价值（想想你把钱存在银行那点微薄的利息）、增加了将来所取得回报的价值。
8. 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。
9. I have a very cheap salary. I have a very meager salary.
   我的工资很微薄。
10. It is difficult for him to make a living on his meager salary.
    靠那样微薄的一份工资他那以维持生活。
11. Because of our meager understanding of Hegelian metaphysics, the study of Hegel in China is not prosperous enough.
    我国黑格尔研究有些萧条，与我们对黑格尔的形而上学的理解有很大关系。
12. I dare to presume my own meager contributions will be rewarded one day.
    我想我也有一天能得到奖赏吧。
13. Aside from his meager savings, he has no resources to fall back on.
    除了极少量的积蓄外，他没有可以依赖的财源。
14. Spark ignited with our meager minds of the perfect career.
    用我们微薄的星火点燃心中理想的事业。
15. He had to support his family with his meager income.
    他只能靠微薄的收入来养家。
16. He depends for his livelihood upon a meager income.
    他依靠微薄的收入过活。
17. He related how on several occasions he was robbed of his meager possessions and beaten.
    他讲述他怎么好几次被人抢走他贫乏的财产和被打。
18. Local governments have long had to tap other sources of income to supplement their meager share of the country's taxes.
    地方政府长久以来就不得不开拓其他收入来源，以补充他们在国家税收当中可以得到的微薄份额。
19. People who do well financially ask different questions as they look at investments than people who produce meager rewards.
    善于理财地人和小打小闹的人在投资机会面前，所问出的问题是不一样的。
20. What can we learn from these meager facts?
    从这些贫乏的材料我们可以了解什么呢？
21. To eke out her meager pay, Betty turned to writing.
    贝蒂为了弥补微薄的工资收入，搞起写作来。
22. She lives on the meager income from her writing.
    她靠写作那点微薄的收入生活。
23. With the assistance of several meager advances from the bookseller who was to bring it out, he succeeded.
    书商给他预支了几笔数目不大的酬金，帮助他取得了成功。
24. It is so meager like thin dusts that I could not even see myself.
    它是如此微薄的像稀薄拂去灰尘般以至于我不能甚而看见自己。
25. Roberta picked up each of his meager purchases and entered each amount into the cash register.
    罗伯塔一一拿起他所买的几件东西，逐一放到收银机上计价。
26. I would take the nourishment that your meager frame has to offer.
    我会把你吃的东西都抢走。
27. And then sell us back a meager portion of it, at even higher prices!
    然后把极小一部分以更高的价格卖给我们！
28. We had a meager helping of fish.
    我们吃了很小的一份鱼。
29. When the meager purchases had been placed into a plastic bag, something remarkable happened.
    当这少量的几件商品被装入到一个塑料袋里后，更引人注目的事还在后头。
30. A: I need to find to part-time job to supplement my meager salary.
    我得找份兼职，以弥补我这可怜巴巴的工资。

adj

1. deficient in amount or quality or extent
   1. meager resources
   2. meager fare

   Synonym:    meagremeagerlystingyscrimpy