meager
['mi:gə]
adj. 贫乏的, 不足的, 瘦的
例句与用法:
A meager monetary allowance, wage, or remuneration.
少量津贴很少一部分金钱补助、工资或津贴
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。
Particulars are too meager to form a decision.
详情不明,难以做出裁夺。
He had to support his family with his meager income.
他只能靠微薄的收入来养家。
词形变化:
副词: meagerly | 名词: meagerness |
a.
1. 瘦的
meager arms
瘦削的手臂
2. 粗劣的; 不足的; 贫乏的
meager cultural resources
贫乏的文化资源
He could not support his family on his meager salary.
他靠微薄的工资无法养家。
meager
词形变化:
副词: meagerly | 名词: meagerness |
同义词:
skimpy | scanty | poor | sparse | thin | lean | insufficient | inadequate | scant | slight | lacking | scarce | exiguous | beggarly | bare | puny | scraggy | emaciated | gaunt | lank | skinny | undernourished | scrawny | rawboned | lanky | bony | underfed | paltry | miserable | measly | derisory | small | mean | insubstantial | bitty | meagre | meagerly | scrimpy | stingy |
反义词:
ample | stout | plump | fat | rich | plentiful |
词义辨析:
同义:
ad.贫乏的, 不足的
scarce
scanty
scant
exiguous
poor
inadequate
insufficient
lacking
slight
skimpy
beggarly
sparse
bare
ad.(人等)瘦的, 营养不良的
lean
thin
skinny
lank
lanky
gaunt
scraggy
scrawny
emaciated
underfed
undernourished
bony
rawboned
a.瘦的; 贫弱的
poor
scanty
thin
lean
sparse
skimpy
同义参见:
puny
lean2
反义:
a.瘦的; 贫弱的
stout
fat
plump
rich
ample
plentiful
meager['mi:ɡə]adj.1.■瘦的;贫瘠的2.■贫弱的;贫乏的;不足的3.■(食物)质量差的;粗劣的4.■(文学作品、思想)不丰富的;不完备的;枯竭的;不详尽的5.■(食物)素的[亦作meagre]近义词scantyscant反义词ampleabundant
meager
■A meager cat is seeking foods in the ruins of a greenbelt under construction by Shanghai Suzhou river,Sept.8,2003.
2003年9月8日,上海苏州河边上正在建设一个大型公共绿地,一只瘦骨嶙峋的猫在废墟上觅食。
■"I have spent decades trying to understand the forces at work in this world. But, In the face of all that is transpiring, I realize how meager my knowledge is.
“我花了几十年尝试理解这世上活动的几股势力。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。
■"The report that first reached us through the newspapers was meager and contradictory" (Thomas B. Aldrich).
“最初通过报纸传到我们这里的报道既不全面又互相矛盾”。 (托马斯B. 奥尔德里奇).
■The effect of a tawdry, unarranged, and over-decorated environment works for the deterioration of taste, just as meager and barren surroundings starve out the desire for beauty.
一个俗气的、没有秩序的和装潢过度的环境会败坏美感,正如贫乏而荒芜的环境会饿死美的愿望一样。
■CCF regiment would average about 2,200 men, organized into three infantry battalions, sometimes with an artillery battery, more often with a mortar company, and several meager support companies.
一个志愿军团平均有2,200人,编成三个步兵营,有时候会有一个炮兵连,更多情况下是一个迫击炮连,另外还有一些为数较少的后勤连队。
■Often at the end of a hard day‘s work one realizes with dismay that the meager stack of finished work one has accomplished has an immeasurably slight impact on the work as a whole.
一些中国品牌以有竞争力的价位为后盾,已经挤进了国际市场,但是同时也采用了其他战略。
■The meager grant of the Commons had by no means put an end to his financial distresses.
下议院通过的那一点微薄的赐资根本无从解决他经济上的困难。
■The old man somehow found his way to the counter ahead of me. Roberta smiled. He said not a single word. Roberta picked up each of his meager purchases and entered each amount into the cash register.
不知怎么地,老人比我先走向柜台。罗伯塔微笑着。老人一声不吭。罗伯塔一一拿起他所买的少量几样东西,逐一放到收银机上计价。
■Despite Kessler's wailing and carrying on, the two assistants methodically removed his meager furniture.
不管凯斯勒怎样喊叫,怎样哭闹,这两名助手还是把他的破旧家俱一件件搬下来。
■The two men and the woman grouped about the fire and began their meager meal.
两个男人同一个女人围着火,开始吃起少得可怜的午饭。
■Individual power is pitifully meager; she oscillates between feeling good and bad, as if she knows that this is a never-ending movement.
个人力量何其渺小,她心情忽高忽低,彷佛知道这是一场没完没了的运动。
■China is a developing country with a large population, a meager heritage, and a undeveloped economy, especially in the rural areas.
中国是一个发展中国家,人口多,底子薄,经济不发达,农村尤其不发达.
■China is a developing country with a large population, a meager heritage and an underdeveloped economy, especially in the rural areas.
中国是一个发展中国家,人口多,底子薄,经济不发达,农村尤其不发达。
■Meager opinions on clinical experimentation
临床试验刍议
■George worked a long hours on meager food ,in a small room,by dim lamps.
乔治吃简陋的食品,住一间小房间,靠微弱的灯光,长时间的工作。
■You might begin with the shepherds in the fields by night or Santa at the North Pole or even the druidic appeal of a winter festival that comes just when the sun seems most meager.
也许你会从夜晚雪地里的牧羊人讲起,或者是北极的圣诞老人,抑或是基督徒在太阳看起来不那么灿烂时表现的对这个冬天节日的热情。
■Perhaps I am just an employee in a small company,living boringly with a meager salary.Perhaps I can marry a good wife and have a pretty child,living harmoniously together.
也许我只是公司小小的职员,拿着自己微薄的薪水,过着自己平淡的日子;
■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。
■The incident itself was very meager.
事情本身不过是芝麻大
■Various confused and contradictory explanations surfaced from ministers, but not the oil. Only at their next officially scheduled meeting did they come up with a meager quota increase.
人们盼到的是部长们花样百出又自相矛盾的解释而不是石油。直到他们下一次的官方会议他们才作出了增加配额的决定,但也是杯水车薪。
■Kingship over human beings is a meager thing when compared with heavenly bliss.
人间的帝位,较之天界的喜乐,实在微不足道。
■Ordinary workers in the building industry earn meager salaries.
从事建筑业的工人收入微薄。
■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?
■They might look meager and wizened, but it was related that they had in their time fought twenty duels or been loved by ten princesses.
他们可能看上去虽然干瘪,形容枯槁,但据说在年轻的时候,曾经参加过廿次决斗,或者曾经获得十位公主的青睐。
■They worked long hours on meager food, in cold caves, by dim lamps.
他们吃的是简陋的饭菜,住的是寒冷的窑洞,在昏暗的灯光下长时间地工作。
■They scraped out a meager existence from the small plot of land.
他们靠一小块土地过着贫穷的生活。
■Their food supply is meager.
他们食品供应短缺。
■He depends for his livelihood upon a meager income.
他依靠微薄的收入过活。
■He had to support his family with his meager income.
他只能靠微薄的收入来养家。
■With an inheritance of about 500 books from his father, he kept accumulating more despite the meager invalids' pension he got from the government.
他的父亲留给他500本书,他承袭著这份遗产,继续累积书本藏量,即便当时的他,只能靠著单薄的政府伤残退役军人津贴勉强支撑。
■His present salary is rather meager.
他目前的工资少得可怜。
■His intelligence was great, his power of reasoning impressive, but his emotional nature was meager.
他睿智恢宏,推理能力惊人,然而他表露感情的天性却有所不足。
■His face was gray and meager, his expression hungry.
他脸色灰白,瘦削,一副饥饿相。
■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。
■He eked out his meager pay by giving private lessons;Braque eked out his collages with charcoal.
他通过做家教来补充他的不高的工资;布拉克用木炭来。
■He eked out his meager pay by giving private lessons; Braque eked out his collages with charcoal.
他通过做家教来补充他的不高的工资;布拉克用木炭来。
■He can not support his family on his meager salary
他靠微薄的工资无法养家
■He can not support his family on his meager salary.
他靠微薄的工资无法养家。
■He rely on the meager income.
他靠微薄的收入生活。
■A high strength, waterproof. easy ignition boiler briquette was made in laboratory by using the Changzi meager coal as raw material and two complex binders at cool pressing briquetting.
以山西省长治市长子县贫煤为成型原料,采用冷压成型工艺,在试验室研制出具有高强、防水、易燃等优良特性的锅炉型煤,该型煤由2种复合粘结剂制成。
■There is a complete metamorphic series of coal from lignite to meager coal in Wumuchang area,Yimin,the main metamorphism type is contact metamorphism of coal.
伊敏五牧场区存在着从褐煤到贫煤完整的变质系列,其主要煤变质类型为接触变质。
■Coupled with the affect of grow apace of market economy and global economics,meager profit will become to a reality problem.
伴随着市场经济的快速发展以及经济全球化的影响,微利将是我们要长期面对的一个客观现实问题。
■But when the girl confessed her mere meager experience that had something to do with accounnting was helping the Students' Union manage its finance, it made the HR manager a bit disappointed.
但女大学生坦言自己没有工作经验,唯一的会计经验是在学校管过学生会财务,这让人事经理有点失望。
■By this meager, solo loop, the whole caboodle is regulated.
但就是这样一个看似贫乏单调的回路,整个过程就得以协调。
■And they wasn't meager, but had deep affection and rich contents. Why?
但并非浅陋,而是有着深沉的感情与充实的内容。
■Hopes the technical service system whichwe consummates to be able for various enterprises' energy to save, thedevelopment most meager strength.
但愿我们完善的技术服务体系能为各企业的能源节约、发展尽微薄之力。
■But supreme leader Gen.Than Shwe reneged on even that meager concession, and she refused to see the U.N. envoy on his latest trip, even as he hobnobbed with one regime crony after another.
但最高领导人丹瑞大将甚至对那个苍白无力的妥协都缺乏诚意,故而她拒绝与新近来访的联合国特使会面,甚至是他与当局头目一个接一个地把酒言欢的情况下都是如此。
■You might begin with the shepherds in the fields by night or Santaat the North Pole or even the druidic appeal of a winter festival thatcomes just when the sun seems most meager.
你可能会从夜晚的牧羊人或者是北部的万圣节要或者是在太阳最薄弱的时候到来的督伊德教的冬天的节日。
■Your meager Jedi training is not enough to assure your success against the Dark Woman.Only the power of the dark side will destroy her.
你的那些绝地训练不足以保证能够击败暗女。只有黑暗面才能干掉她。。决定是我做的。
■Funds for malaria research and development amount to a meager 0.3 percent of all medical expenditures worldwide.
供研究疟疾的基金的总数不足全世界医疗费用支出的0.3%。