meagre
['mi:gə]
adj. 瘦的, 不足的, 贫乏的
=meager(美)
例句与用法:
He was so weak from hunger he could hardly raise his meagre arms.
他饿得虚弱无力,连骨瘦如柴的胳膊都举不起来。
He had to support his family with his meagre income.
他只能靠微薄的收入来养家。
词形变化:
副词: meagerly | 名词: meagerness |
meagre
词形变化:
副词: meagerly | 名词: meagerness |
同义词:
meagre | slenderly | stingy | meagrely | sparingly | scrimpy | meager |
反义词:
amply |
(美 meager)
adjective
- (of something provided or available) lacking in quantity or quality
不足的,微薄的;质量差的
they were forced to supplement their meagre earnings.
他们不得不想办法补充自己的微薄收入。
■(of a person or animal) lean; thin
瘦的,消瘦的
■(of ideas or writing) lacking fullness; unsatisfying
(思想或作品)贫乏的,不丰富的,不完备的;不令人满意的
a curriculum which is mean, meagre, and mechanical.
低劣、不完整和呆板的课程。
meagrely
adverb
meagreness
noun
语源
- Middle English (in the sense 'lean'): from Old French maigre, from Latin macer
meagre2
noun
- (Brit.). another term for kabeljou
(英)。 同 kabeljou
- mid 16th cent.: from French, noun use of maigre 'lean, thin'
meagre
■Cause Analysis of Meagre Wages of Sichuan Primary School Teachers in the 30's of the 20th Century
20世纪30年代四川小学教师薪资微薄及原因分析
■Some economists have warned that a likely return of deflation next year could force the BoJ to cut further its already meagre 0.3 per cent policy interest rate.
一些经济学家警告称,日本明年可能出现通货紧缩,这可能迫使日央行进一步下调已经很低的0.3%的政策利率。
■A group of kidney patients had pooled their meagre resources to buy their own second-hand dialysis equipment in order to avoid crippling hospital charges.
一群肾病患者共同出资购买了二手的透析设备以避免支付医院的治疗费用。
■Four days after the storm, a bunch of soldiers arrived, handed out meagre rations and then mostly just loafed by the roadside.
一队军人在风暴后的第四天到达该地,在分发了少量的救济之后就基本上沿着路边转悠。
■a meagre meal
一顿清茶淡饭
■The meagre 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。
■meagre data
不充足的资料
■Unfortunately, that woman and his meagre savings preyed on his mind.
不幸,那个女的和那点钱教他不能安心;
■Since he was only in the middle management, his meagre salary was not sufficient for him to make ends meet.
不过,他怎样的会拉下这许多亏空的呢?
■Meanwhile, component prices are plunging, overcapacity is rife and margins are meagre.
与此同时,元件价格猛增,生产能力普遍过剩,差额减少。
■There's no nation under the sun that doesn't try to protect its military secrets, however meagre, from foreign powers.
世界上没有哪一个国家不会尽力对外保守军事秘密,无论其军事力量如何弱小。
■It "ranks poorly on the specific dimensions of economic opportunity and health and well-being, compromised by meagre maternity leave, the lack of maternity leave benefits and limited government-provided childcare," the WEF said.
世界经济论坛指出美国在就业机会、健康和福利方面排名靠后,这主要是因为在美国,妇女产假较短,产假期间收入较少,还有政府对儿童提供的照顾有限。
■It" ranks poorly on the specific dimensions of economic opportunity and health and well-being, compromised by meagre maternity leave, the lack of maternity leave benefits and limited government-provided childcare," the WEF said.
世界经济论坛指出美国在就业机会、康和福利方面排名靠后,这主要是因为在美国,妇女产假较短,产假期间收入较少,还有政府对儿童提供的照顾有限。
■It ranks poorly on the specific dimensions of economic opportunity and health and well-being, compromised by meagre maternity leave, the lack of maternity leave benefits.
世界经济论坛的调查显示,美国在妇女就业机会、康和福利方面排名靠后,这主要是因为在美国,妇女产假较短,产假期间收入较少.
■Individual power is pitifully meagre, she oscillates between feeling good and bad, as if she knows this is a never-ending movement.
个人力量何其渺少,她心情忽高忽低,彷佛知道这是一场没完没了的运动。
■Offers strengthof the oneself meagre strength for your firm.
为贵公司献上自己一点绵薄之力。
■It finally assumes a form, and adjusts itself. One vegetates, that is to say, one develops in a certain meagre fashion, which is, however, sufficient for life.
久而久之,它能定形,并且稳定下来。人们节衣缩食,也就是以一种仅足维持生命的清苦方式成长着。
■the economic nightmare of an India of underemployed farm labourers spending their meagre earnings on imported Chinese goods
二是经济厄运,即印度大量闲置的农村劳动力花着微薄的收入去购买由中国进口商品
■the economic nightmare of an India of underemployed farm labourers spending their meagre earnings on imported Chinese goods;
二是经济厄运,即印度大量闲置的农村劳动力花着微薄的收入去购买由中国进口商品;
■One vegetates, that is to say, one develops in a certain meagre fashion, which is, however, sufficient for life.
人们节衣缩食,也就是以一种仅足维持生命的清苦方式成长着。
■The harvest of maize, the local staple food, was meagre this year.
今年津巴布韦的玉米收成与主粮极为贫乏。
■From being slender he had now become meagre;
他人从消瘦变成了羸弱,脸色从苍白变成了焦黄;
■Pulling out the contents of his bag, he brandished a sun visor and boiled sweets and joked about meagre airline food.
他从口袋拿出太阳帽跟甜品,调侃起飞机上简陋的食物。
■They might look meagre and wizened, 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 meagre food, in cold caves, by dim lamps.
他们吃简陋的食品,住寒冷的窑洞,靠微弱的灯光长时间地工作。
■They fear that the shelters are insecure and their meagre possessions will be stolen.
他们害怕避难所不安全,他们微薄的财产遭偷窃。
■He had to support his family with his meagre income.
他只能靠微薄的收入来养家。
■He heard hundreds of technical words that were new to him, belonging to fields of thought that his meagre reading had never touched upon.
他听见了数以百计的新术语,它们所使用的领域是他那可怜的一点阅读所不曾涉猎到的。
■And the more he finds about himself in other newspapers, the more indignant he will be with those whose reports are meagre.
他在其他报纸上读到的有关自己的报导越多,对报导不够充分的报纸就越气愤。
■His visage was meagre, his hair lank and thin, and his voice hollow.
他容貌清瘦,头发又稀又长,嗓音低沉。
■He was beginning to find, in his wretched clothing and meagre state of body, that people took him for a chronic type of bum and beggar.
他开始发现,由于他衣衫褴褛、身体瘦弱,人们把他当作老牌游民和乞丐看待了。
■He allotted a salary from his own funds to the two instructors, a salary twice as large as their meagre official salary.
他拿出自己的钱,津贴两个教员,这项津贴竟比他们微薄的薪金多出两倍;
■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.
他是中学的物理老师.养着一大家人.薪水微薄.有一肚子精挑细选的人云亦云的知识.
■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
他是中学的物理老师,养着一大家人,薪水微薄,有一肚子精挑细选的人云亦云的知识。
■His knowledge of Chinese history is meagre.
他的中国历史知识很贫乏。
■He has a very meagre knowledge of history.
他的历史知识很浅薄。
■His wife, on the contrary, whose maiden name had been Madeleine Radelle, was pale, meagre, and sickly-looking.
他的妻子名叫码德兰·莱德儿,她却正巧和他相反,脸色苍白消瘦,面带病容。
■Until now he had been too much ashamed of his pale and meagre body, with the varicose veins standing out on his calves and the discoloured patch over his ankle.
他的身体好生苍白消瘦,腿肚子青筋毕露,膝盖上长了白斑,这副德行,一直叫他免不了自惭形秽。
■His meagre knowledge arouses no sympathy in others.
他见识浅陋,无人共鸣。
■He was so weak from hunger he could hardly raise his meagre arms.
他饿得虚弱无力,连骨瘦如柴的胳膊都举不起来。
■The Meagre Opinion on Anthropocentric Moral-training
以人为本的德育刍议
■Special clothing before doing his staff more volume, but the profits meagre.
以前做服装特别累,员工多,业务量大,但利润微薄。
■but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.
但当您无法用数字表达它,您的知识是贫乏和令人不满的种类。
■But he has also ordered cuts in “non-essential” education and health spending, as well as in the meagre free-food rations that Cubans receive from the state.
但是他同时下令削减“非必要的”教育和医疗保健开支,还削减了古巴人从国家获得的少量免费食品配给。
■But areas where yields are falling because of climate change include sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, where the victims are small farmers eking out an already meagre living.
但是包括撒哈拉沙漠以南的非洲以及南亚的地区却因为气候的变化导致农作物的减产。而这些受灾者都是竭力维持本已贫乏生计的小农。
■But if you compare it to the Mozambique floods, for instance, then it looks less meagre - it stacks up better.
但是,如果一定要将地震和洪水对比,那么地震的援助就显得不是那么失利,救援正在趋向好转。
■But he does not believe that skittish investors will drive prices down dramatically, thanks to resilient demand for raw materials and meagre supply.
但是,由于原材料强有力的需求,以及有限供应,他不相信忧心忡忡的投资人会将价格急剧打压。
■But this globetrotting has so far yielded meagre returns.
但是,目前来说,花旗全球逐鹿所取得的回报非常贫弱。
■But it is a meagre sandbag against the rising waters of unemployment.
但这对不断增加的失业人数来说,只是杯水车薪。
■Party officials worked long hours on meagre food, in cold caves, by dim-lamps.
党的干部吃简陋的饮食,住寒冷的窑洞,靠微弱的灯光,长时间地工作。