meager
英 [ˈmiːgə]
美 [ˈmigər]
adj. 贫瘠的；不毛的; 瘦的
COCA.9607
英英释义
adj
- deficient in amount or quality or extent
- meager resources
- meager fare
双语例句
- She lives on the meager income from her writing.
她靠写作那点微薄的收入生活。 - I would take the nourishment that your meager frame has to offer.
我会把你吃的东西都抢走。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - He had to support his family with his meager income.
他只能靠微薄的收入来养家。