meagre

英 [ˈmiːɡə(r)]

美 [ˈmiːɡər]

adj.  少量且劣质的

IELTSTEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.9500 / COCA.38175

牛津词典

adj.

• 少量且劣质的
  small in quantity and poor in quality
  1. a meagre diet of bread and water
     只有面包和水的粗茶淡饭
  2. She supplements her meagre income by cleaning at night.
     她靠夜间做清洁工来补充其微薄的收入。

柯林斯词典

in AM, use 美国英语用 meager


• ADJ-GRADED 数量很少的;微薄的;不足的;贫乏的
  If you describe an amount or quantity of something asmeagre, you are critical of it because it is very small or not enough.
  1. The bank's staff were already angered by a meagre 3.1% pay rise...
     银行职员对只加薪3.1%已心生怒火。
  2. Their food supply is meager.
     他们的食品供给少得可怜。

英英释义

adj

• deficient in amount or quality or extent
  1. meager resources
  2. meager fare
  Synonym:meagermeagerlystingyscrimpy

双语例句

• Understate one's losses, eg of money, troops I get only meagre pay.
  少报损失（如金钱、兵员的损失）.我只得到很少的报酬。
• At least that would offer the meagre comfort of simplicity.
  至少那样能让人感到简单生活下一些少有的舒适感。
• But opportunities in heavily regulated financial and professional service sectors, including law and accounting, remain meagre.
  但在受到严密监管的金融、及法律和会计等专业服务领域，机会依然很少。
• They lived on meagre government grants in their student days.
  在学生时期，他们是靠政府的一点救济维持生活的。
• Later this was relaxed and every inmate except those sent to solitary confinement ate the same meagre diet.
  后来这又放宽了，除去单独隔离的囚犯之外，其他人都供应一样可怜的食物。
• My eyes, dad is always like that, for I love so meagre.
  我眼中，爸爸总是这样，对我的爱如此微少。
• On financial reform, the new Basel accords, which governments may ratify in Seoul, are meagre progress.
  在金融改革方面，各国政府有望在首尔批准的新巴塞尔协议只代表了微弱的进展。
• His knowledge of Chinese history is meagre.
  他的中国历史知识很贫乏。
• The show is drawing but a meagre audience.
  看演出的观众寥寥无几。
• The resources of New York are rather meagre.
  纽约的娱乐场所太少了。