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

• 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。
• 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。
• I get only meagre pay.
  我只得到很少的报酬。
• 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。
• He warns, though, that the meagre first-quarter growth result depended on heavy government stimulus measures.
  但他警告说，第一季度微弱的经济增长来自于政府的大力经济刺激措施。
• Meagre or non-existent social protection explains much of the high household savings rates that have helped finance the region's growth.
  微薄或根本不存在的社会保障，在很大程度上正是该地区高储蓄率的原因所在，而这也为该地区经济增长提供了资金。
• 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。
• 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。
• It was difficult to live on his meagre earnings.
  他靠微薄的收入难以为生。
• His knowledge of Chinese history is meagre.
  他的中国历史知识很贫乏。