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
- 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。 - It was difficult to live on his meagre earnings.
他靠微薄的收入难以为生。 - 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。 - 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%。 - The show is drawing but a meagre audience.
看演出的观众寥寥无几。 - 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。 - 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。 - Particulars are too meagre to form a decision.
详情不足,难以作出决断。