meager

meager，英語單詞，主要用作形容詞、名詞，作形容詞時譯為“貧乏的；瘦的”，作名詞時譯為“兆”。

基本介紹

• 外文名：meager
• 詞性：形容詞、名詞
• 美式發音：['migɚ]
• 釋義：貧乏的；瘦的|兆

單詞用法

柯林斯英漢雙解大詞典

meager /ˈmiːɡə/ TEM8

短語搭配

meager profit[經] 微利 ; 薄利 ; 微利英語 ; 微利

Meager Leg 回向為反向

Too meager 微薄太少

meager pay 微薄的工資

meagre meager 不太詳細的 ; 不激烈

meager hospitality 薄待

meager treatment 待遇菲薄

meager r 貧乏的 ; 貧乏 ; 瘦削的

meager fare 不足的費用

meager space menger空間

雙語例句

• It's difficult to raise a family on a meager income. 依靠微薄的收入是很難養家的。
• During their six- to twelve-week voyage, they subsisted on meager rations. 在六到十二周的航行中，他們靠微薄的口糧維持生活。
• Members of poor peasant families spun or wove cloth and linens at home for scant remuneration in an attempt to supplement meager family income. 貧窮農民家庭的成員在家紡織布和亞麻以掙得很少的報酬，彌補微薄的家庭收入。
• By comparison, the terrestrial planets have meager atmospheres at best. 相比之下，類地行星最多只有稀薄的大氣層。
• A3: Because of long voyages and meager rations. A 3：因為長期航行和有限的乾糧。
• His meager wage is not enough to support their five children. 靠他一個人的微薄工資不足以養活他們的五個孩子。
• During their six - to 12-week voyages they lived on meager rations. 在6到12周的航行中，他們依靠微薄的口糧生存。
• Do I ask you to come into my workplace and supplement my meager income? 我問過你來我的辦公室看看，然後補充一下我貧瘠的收入嘛？
• Other elderly people resort to petty theft to increase their meager purchasing power. 一些老人小偷小摸，以增加他們微薄的購買力。
• At that time, I was not happy with my meager vocation or the person I had become. 那個時候，我對我的職業或者是我自己不滿意。
• Actors would gather outside what was left of the building to pick up their meager salaries. 演員們不得不聚集在大樓殘骸外面來獲取微薄的收入。
• The months wore on, but the production of the new gold factory was disappointingly meager. 歲月流逝，流水無痕，但這家新建黃金製造廠的產量少得可憐，令人相當相當地失望。
• And if someone said, it's 4%, you'd say, well that's kind of meager, I want a better dividend than that. 如果他說，是4%，你會覺得少，我想要更高的股利。
• Stocks of developed countries like the U.S. can appear meager in comparison to those in emerging markets. 與新興市場相比，美國等已開發國家的股市回報可能相形見絀。
• The Nissan KA24E engine, while durable, was a heavy, iron-block unit that produced meager power for its size. 尼桑ka24 E鑄鐵發動機雖然耐用，但是與其產生的動力相比略顯笨重。
• US Agency for International Development funding increased from a meager $9.3 million in 2008 to $24 million in 2009. 美國國際開發署基金從2008年的930萬美元提高至2009年的2400萬美元。
• He was very good to me, gave me some research work to supplement my meager income, and invited me to his house for dinner. 他對我非常不錯，讓我做一些研究工作來貼補我那微薄的收入，他還邀請過我到他家去吃飯。
• It is because these products are cheap, and given people's meager salaries these ersatz goods are often their only option. 因為這些產品價格低廉，他們微薄的收入只能去消費這些假冒偽劣產品。
• It had meager fresh water supplies, however, so Darwin and his botanist friend, Joseph Hooker, set out to change things. 這個島上的淡水資源非常稀缺，然而也正因為稀缺，所以達爾文與他的植物學家朋友約瑟夫·胡克(Joseph Hooker)便著手改變這一狀況。
• Yet, despite the meager payoffs of their college degrees, many graduates think the solution is more school, and more debt. 當前，大學學位的回報正在下降，許多畢業生認為解決方式是有更多的學校和更多的債務。
• Indeed, Reagan ushered in an era in which a small minority grew vastly rich, while working families saw only meager gains. 的確，里根引入了一個新的時代，在這個時代里一小部分人迅速地累計財富，而工薪家庭卻只能得到微薄的收入。
• Residents turn to the hawkers for quick meals and cheap goods, and the vendors rely on the meager earnings to scratch out a living. 居民開始在買小販的快餐和便宜的商品，而商販們則依賴於微薄的收入維持生存。
• She has never seen adoctor and, like many residents of this area, lives in a meager bartereconomy, seldom coming into contact with cash. 她從來沒有看過醫生，和這一地區的許多居民一樣，偶爾進行實物交易，甚少使用、接觸現金。
• The average of the 51 forecasts was fourth-quarter growth at a meager 0.7% rate, so slow that it will push the unemployment rate higher. 51位經濟學家對第四季度經濟增幅的平均預測值僅為0.7%，如此之低的增幅可能會進一步推高失業率。
• About now, new CEO Gorman is probably learning that the meager profits of a retail brokerage can't pay for all those monster Wall Street bonuses. 眼下，這位大摩新掌門或許意識到了來自零售經紀業務的微薄盈利還不夠華爾街薪酬的血盆大口塞牙縫。
• Senator Barack Obama has put out such meager information that voters have to take it largely on his campaign's say-so that he is in good health. 關於歐巴馬的信息寥寥無幾，人們只能通過他競選時自己的說法來判斷：健康狀況很好。