单词meagre
adj.: 少量且劣质的
网络: 瘦的；微薄；贫乏的
少量且劣质的:
small in quantity and poor in quality
贫瘠的
瘦的;贫乏的;不足的
(人、动物等)瘦的;(土地)不毛的;粗陋的,贫弱的;思想贫乏的;枯燥的(作品等)
微薄的
Adj.+n.:
meagre income
adj.smallslightinsufficientinadequatesparse
adj.plentiful
Will any of these measures help to lift France"s growth rate from its recent meagre average of 2% a year?
所有这些措施有助于法国提高当前可怜的每年2%的经济增长率吗？
"Pensioners have no voice and are left to survive on a meagre allowance each week that most people would never manage on, " he said.
「退休老人没有声音，被迫每周靠著微薄的退休金维生，多数人光靠这点钱绝对没办法生活，」他说。
She said: "The meagre revenue by government should be directed towards critical needs like health, antiretroviral drugs and education.
她表示：“政府收入原本就少得可怜，应该用到那些有迫切需要的地方，比如卫生、抗逆转录病毒药物以及教育等方面。”
Copying gives me access to an infinitely richer and more varied menu of ideas than if I had to limit myself to my own meagre store.
比起我自己腹中那点可怜的存货，抄袭能让我接触到无限丰富和多样的想法。
a month and his meagre salary is not enough to pay for the education she wants to give her children.
34美金），他可怜巴巴的收入不足以支付妻子想要给孩子所受的教育。
Oh, that soul was itself meagre, ghastly, and famished; and cruelty was the delight of that soul!
哦，这灵魂本身是可怕饥瘦；残忍也是那灵魂的乐趣！
I wonder, therefore, whether it was worthwhile to risk a selective default for such a meagre debt reduction effort?
因此，我很怀疑，为了这种力度欠佳的减债方案而承担选择性违约的风险是否值得。
"When you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind. "
“当你不能度量自己所言、不能用数字将它表达出来时，你的了解就是贫乏的，不能令人满意。”
The EU"s military capability is meagre; its ability to stand up to Russian divide-and-rule tactics in energy security is feeble.
欧盟的军事实力不强；与俄罗斯在能源安全方面分而治之的策略也是很薄弱的。
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。