meagre
英 [ˈmiːɡə(r)]
美 [ˈmiːɡər]
adj. 少量且劣质的
Collins.1 / BNC.9500 / COCA.38175
牛津词典
adj.
- 少量且劣质的
small in quantity and poor in quality- a meagre diet of bread and water
只有面包和水的粗茶淡饭 - 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。
- a meagre diet of bread and water
柯林斯词典
- 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.- 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。 - Their food supply is meager.
他们的食品供给少得可怜。
- The bank's staff were already angered by a meagre 3.1% pay rise...
in AM, use 美国英语用 meager
英英释义
adj
- deficient in amount or quality or extent
- meager resources
- meager fare
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。 - To supplement their meagre income, often he used to go fishing with his friends.
为了添补其微薄的收入，他经常与朋友们一起去钓鱼。 - 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。 - The diet should be suitable, being neither too rich nor too meagre.
膳食应该适当，即不能太油腻也不能太粗淡。 - His knowledge of Chinese history is meagre.
他的中国历史知识很贫乏。 - I get only meagre pay.
我只得到很少的报酬。 - Even if the meagre synergies achieved doubled overnight, they would enhance group earnings by just 2-4 per cent.
即便合并取得的弱小的协同优势在一夜之间扩大一倍，它们也仅会将集团收益提高2%至4%。 - 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。 - 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。 - Her meagre contribution to our funds
她给我们基金的微薄捐款