meagre

adj.

1. 少量且劣质的
   small in quantity and poor in quality
   1. a meagre diet of bread and water
      只有面包和水的粗茶淡饭
   2. She supplements her meagre income by cleaning at night.
      她靠夜间做清洁工来补充其微薄的收入。

in AM, use 美国英语用 meager


1. ADJ-GRADED 数量很少的;微薄的;不足的;贫乏的
   If you describe an amount or quantity of something as meagre, you are critical of it because it is very small or not enough.
   1. The bank's staff were already angered by a meagre 3.1% pay rise...
      银行职员对只加薪3.1%已心生怒火。
   2. Their food supply is meager.
      他们的食品供给少得可怜。

1. The bank's staff were already angered by a meagre 3.1% pay rise
   银行职员对只加薪3.1%已心生怒火。
2. The patient isn't restricted to a meagre diet
   并没有限制这位病人少吃东西。
3. Particulars are too meagre to form a decision.
   详情不足，难以作出决断。
4. The diet should be suitable, being neither too rich nor too meagre.
   膳食应该适当，即不能太油腻也不能太粗淡。
5. The show is drawing but a meagre audience.
   看演出的观众寥寥无几。
6. 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。
7. 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。
8. Her knowledge of music is meagre.
   她的音乐知识很贫乏。
9. But meagre compensation for the loss of that most uncommon of online commoners.
   但这远远无法弥补他的离世带来的损失，因为我们失去的是网络大众中最不同寻常的人物。
10. I get only meagre pay.
    我只得到很少的报酬。
11. 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。
12. Even if the meagre synergies achieved doubled overnight, they would enhance group earnings by just 2-4 per cent.
    即便合并取得的弱小的协同优势在一夜之间扩大一倍，它们也仅会将集团收益提高2%至4%。
13. Meagre or non-existent social protection explains much of the high household savings rates that have helped finance the region's growth.
    微薄或根本不存在的社会保障，在很大程度上正是该地区高储蓄率的原因所在，而这也为该地区经济增长提供了资金。
14. He warns, though, that the meagre first-quarter growth result depended on heavy government stimulus measures.
    但他警告说，第一季度微弱的经济增长来自于政府的大力经济刺激措施。
15. Later this was relaxed and every inmate except those sent to solitary confinement ate the same meagre diet.
    后来这又放宽了，除去单独隔离的囚犯之外，其他人都供应一样可怜的食物。
16. 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。
17. My eyes, dad is always like that, for I love so meagre.
    我眼中，爸爸总是这样，对我的爱如此微少。
18. Her meagre contribution to our funds
    她给我们基金的微薄捐款
19. His knowledge of Chinese history is meagre.
    他的中国历史知识很贫乏。
20. House prices did drop in August from the previous month – although by a meagre 0.1 per cent.
    8月份的房价确实出现了环比下跌，但跌幅仅为0.1%。
21. It was difficult to live on his meagre earnings.
    他靠微薄的收入难以为生。
22. The Legal Aid Council does not receive its meagre budget on time.
    而法律援助委员会连这些少之又少的资金预算也无法按时收到。
23. 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。
24. The Chinese consumers spending on extravagant branded goods based on their meagre incomes is simply not sustainable.
    中国消费者是基于自己那些少的可怜的收入来消费那些奢侈品牌产品，这完全是不可承受得起的。
25. They lived on meagre government grants in their student days.
    在学生时期，他们是靠政府的一点救济维持生活的。
26. On financial reform, the new Basel accords, which governments may ratify in Seoul, are meagre progress.
    在金融改革方面，各国政府有望在首尔批准的新巴塞尔协议只代表了微弱的进展。
27. I was supporting a family of three on a meagre media salary.
    我在媒体微薄的工资支持着一家三口。
28. The resources of New York are rather meagre.
    纽约的娱乐场所太少了。
29. Understate one's losses, eg of money, troops I get only meagre pay.
    少报损失（如金钱、兵员的损失）.我只得到很少的报酬。

adj

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

   Synonym:    meagermeagerlystingyscrimpy