meagre
美 [?miɡ?r] 
英 [?mi?ɡ?(r)]
反義詞
同義詞
英漢雙解
1. | 少量且劣質的small in quantity and poor in quality |
| a meagre diet of bread and water 只有面包和水的簡樸飲食 |
| She supplements her meagre income by cleaning at night. 她靠做夜間清潔工來補貼其微薄的收入。 |
英漢解釋
adj. | 1. (人,動物等)瘦的;(土地)不毛的;粗陋的,貧弱的;思想貧乏的;枯燥的(作品等) |
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英英解釋
例句
Will any of these measures help to lift France's growth rate from its recent meagre average of 2% a year?
所有這些措施有助于法國提高當前可憐的每年2%的經濟增長率嗎？
"Pensioners have no voice and are left to survive on a meagre allowance each week that most people would never manage on, " he said.
「退休老人沒有聲音，被迫每周靠著微薄的退休金維生，多數人光靠這點錢絕對沒辦法生活，」他說。
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憐，應該用到那些有迫切需要的地方，比如衛生、抗逆轉錄病毒藥物以及教育等方面。”
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.
比起我自己腹中那點可憐的存貨，抄襲能讓我接觸到無限豐富和多樣的想法。
a month and his meagre salary is not enough to pay for the education she wants to give her children.
34美金），他可憐巴巴的收入不足以支付妻子想要給孩子所受的教育。
Oh, that soul was itself meagre, ghastly, and famished; and cruelty was the delight of that soul!
哦，這靈魂本身是可怕饑瘦；殘忍也是那靈魂的樂趣！
I wonder, therefore, whether it was worthwhile to risk a selective default for such a meagre debt reduction effort?
因此，我很懷疑，為了這種力度欠佳的減債方案而承擔選擇性違約的風險是否值得。
"When you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind. "
“當你不能度量自己所言、不能用數字將它表達出來時，你的了解就是貧乏的，不能令人滿意。”
The EU's military capability is meagre; its ability to stand up to Russian divide-and-rule tactics in energy security is feeble.
歐盟的軍事實力不強；與俄羅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.
他是中學的物理老師，養著一大家人，薪水微薄，有一肚子精挑細選的人云亦云的知識。
That compares with a meagre doubling in the price of copper this year and a 77% increase in the Shanghai stockmarket.
與此相比，上漲不過一倍的期貨銅，以及上升約77%的上海股市簡直微不足道。
Advertisements for PCs already tout their meagre energy consumption just as prominently as their number-crunching prowess.
個人電腦廣告已經開始像兜售其超級運算能力一樣推銷其低能耗的性能。
Given that these are so meagre, this might seem to be an unpromising line of inquiry.
既然他們是那么的貧困，看起來這似乎是一個沒有好結果的調查。
Mr Cui, a retired soldier , was unable to find work in his native province and eked out a meagre living by baking sausages .
崔英杰是一位退伍軍人，他無法在家鄉找到工作，靠出售烤香腸勉強維持著貧苦的生活。
Even if the recovery can be sustained this year, GDP growth is likely to be a meagre 1% or so.
即使今年能夠繼續復蘇，GDP的增長可能是微乎其微的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，經濟改革起效之前，全球制造業中，中國僅占了微薄的3%。
In the course of time the crowd thinned out to a meagre handful.
過了一段時間，圍觀的人群漸漸散去，只剩下寥寥幾個人。
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.
隨著石油和其他大宗商品價格的大幅下降，商品的同比價格上漲幅度僅為不到1%，而10月份上漲幅度還在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，對于最低工資沒有人有太多的抱怨。它已經改善了成千上萬名工人微波的收入。
From St. Mark, whose account of the Precursor's life is very meagre , no new detail can be gathered.
在馬可來看，這位先驅者的生命是非常貧弱的，沒有新的細節可以收集。
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.
工資如此之低，其發放也是一拖再拖，以至于活動于各個監獄的慈善團體有時還要給囚犯甚至典獄長發配食物與肥皂。
At least that would offer the meagre comfort of simplicity.
至少那樣能讓人感到簡單生活下一些少有的舒適感。
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聲中，我只能聽見寢室外樹葉稚嫩和均勻的呼吸！
Such meagre income shall not be able to support a spacious work space downtown.
這樣微薄的利潤將不足以維持一個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.
賈斯丁·布朗是一個本篤會修道院的一名院長，通過制作、出售簡單的木質棺材來增加微薄的收入。
To supplement their meagre income, often he used to go fishing with his friends.
為了添補其微薄的收入，他經常與朋友們一起去釣魚。
She grabbed meagre meals when she had a free moment . But Luyuan felt liberated from the rigid and demanding schedule of industry .
有空的時候，就草草扒拉幾口飯。但李蘆媛卻感覺從工廠僵化、繁重的日程中解脫了出來。
According to Barclays Capital, the annualised real return since the start of 2003 has been a meagre 1%.
據巴克萊資本的計算，自2003年以來，其年化真實回報率僅為1%。
By importing savings from abroad, poor countries can invest more than they are able to set aside from their own meagre output.
通過從國外引進資金，比起他們可以通過勒緊褲腰帶省出來的那點錢，他們可以進行更多的投資。
With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.
關于奢侈品和舒適品，聰明人往往過著比貧困者更為簡單和樸素的生活。
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.
但一個不爭的事實是，奧巴馬所強調的接觸與“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.
超過一半的人口生活在這條本來錢就很少的貧困線的120%以下。
In the early stages of development people destroy forests for a meagre living.
在發展早期，人們為了糊口而毀林開荒。
Then, a few years ago, the plant went bankrupt and shut down. All the workers were let go with only meagre severance pay.
幾年前，工廠破產倒閉，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.
作為全球最大的零售商，沃爾瑪在成熟市場的銷售額增長乏力，因此需要借助中國市場來彌補。
During that time, his wife Lee relies entirely on the meagre salary to live, even when played a "family men and women. "
那段時間，李安完全靠妻子微薄的薪水度日，甚至當起了“家庭婦男”。
There's no nation under the sun that doesn't try to protect its military secrets, however meagre , from foreign powers.
世界上沒有哪一個國家不會盡力對外保守軍事秘密，無論其軍事力量如何弱小。
But opportunities in heavily regulated financial and professional service sectors, including law and accounting, remain meagre.
但在受到嚴密監管的金融、及法律和會計等專業服務領域，機會依然很少。
Those sums are due to fall soon, when a temporary boost expires. Even the current package is meagre.
當臨時支援到期后，該救濟金額就會減少，盡管目前該救濟金額很微薄。
Frustrated at the area's meagre manufacturing wages and cost of living, her husband and child had returned home.
制造業工資如此微薄，生活成本卻不低，她丈夫心灰意冷之下，帶著孩子回了家鄉。
