1·During their six- to twelve-week voyage, they subsisted on meager rations.
在六到十二周的航行中,他们靠微薄的口粮维持生活。
2·Members of poor peasant families spun or wove cloth and linens at home for scant remuneration in an attempt to supplement meager family income.
贫穷农民家庭的成员在家纺织布和亚麻以挣得很少的报酬,弥补微薄的家庭收入。
3·His meager wage is not enough to support their five children.
靠他一个人的微薄工资不足以养活他们的五个孩子。
4·Residents turn to the hawkers for quick meals and cheap goods, and the vendors rely on the meager earnings to scratch out a living.
居民开始在买小贩的快餐和便宜的商品,而商贩们则依赖于微薄的收入维持生存。
5·About now, new CEO Gorman is probably learning that the meager profits of a retail brokerage can't pay for all those monster Wall Street bonuses.
眼下,这位大摩新掌门或许意识到了来自零售经纪业务的微薄盈利还不够华尔街薪酬的血盆大口塞牙缝。
1·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。
2·But, in the face of all that is transpiring, I realize how meager my knowledge is.
但是,当面对这突发一切时,我才意识到自己的知识有多么贫乏。
3·Vitamins supplemented his meager diet.
维生素补充了他贫乏的饮食。
4·It has been more than once remarked that being is nothing more than simple self-relation, and this meager category is certainly implied in the notion, or even in thought.
常有人说,存在不外是简单的自身联系,而且这种贫乏的范畴当然包括在概念里,或者也包括在思想里了。