meagre

adj. 瘦的；贫弱的；贫乏的

adj.

瘦的；贫弱的；思想贫乏的；土地不毛的

英英释义

meagre[ 'mi:gə ]

adj.deficient in amount or quality or extent

同义词：meagermeagerlystingyscrimpy

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

Blackberries are not plentiful in this meagre grove, but they are easily seen from the public footpath which traverses it, and all too easily gathered.
在这片贫乏的园林里，黑刺莓本来就不多，可是公共小径横穿园林，黑刺莓极易让人看见，采集起来也不费周折。

权威例句

meagre

meagre: [14] Meagre originally meant literally ‘thin’ (it goes back via Anglo-Norman megre and Old French maigre to Latin macer ‘thin’, source also of English emaciate [17]). Not until the 16th century did the modern figurative sense ‘scanty’ begin to emerge. (Its distant Indo- European ancestor, incidentally, *makró-, also produced a parallel Germanic form mager ‘thin’, shared by German, Dutch, Swedish, and Danish.)=> emaciate

meagre (adj.)

chiefly British English spelling of meager (q.v.); for spelling, see -re.

1. 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。

2. Others grumble at their meagre pay: a typical teacher, with almost 25 years’ experience, earns only around $650 a month.

其他人抱怨他们工资微薄：一个典型的有着25年教龄的教师一个月只能挣650美元左右。

3. The differences we see in the diversity of species and numbers of individuals may well be related to how they are able to process and share out a rather common but meagre food supply.

我们在多样性物种和个体数量中看到的差别也许与它们如何能够加工并分享相当普通而微薄的食物供给有关。

4. Now that it was dead, however, I was jolly well going to eat it — so we spent all evening smoking and salting the meat to supplement our meagre supplies.

虽然它已经死了，然而我实在不想吃它。因此我们花了整个晚上来熏烤、用盐腌它的肉以补充我们的贫乏的补给。

5. When walls of seawater came crashing down on these vulnerable fishing and farming families six months ago, many saw their meagre livelihoods washed away.

六个月前，当海水铸成的高墙压向这些渔民和农民家庭时，许多人眼看着他们贫弱的生计被冲走。

6. He had nothing save his meagre half-pay as chief of squadron.

他除了那份极微薄的骑兵队队长的半薪之外，什么都没有。

7. I saw for myself the poor conditions of work and the desperate staff shortages, compounded by meagre and uncertain salaries.

我亲眼看到极差的工作条件和职员的严重短缺，还有微薄和不稳定的工资。

8. Justin Brown is an abbot at a Benedictine abbey that supplements its meagre income by making and selling simple wooden coffins.

贾斯丁·布朗是一个本笃会修道院的一名院长，通过制作、出售简单的木质棺材来增加微薄的收入。

9. McDonald’s, a hamburger chain, said it might be forced to drop its (already meagre) health-insurance coverage because of onerous provisions in the new health laws.

麦当劳快餐连锁表示，鉴于新医保法的某些条款，公司很可能会被迫将已经很微薄的医保费再次降低。

10. In 1990, before economic reforms began to work, it accounted for a meagre 3 per cent of global manufacturing.

在1990年之前，经济改革起效之前，全球制造业中，中国仅占了微薄的3 ％。

11. In 1990, before economic reforms began to work, it accounted for a meagre 3 per cent of global manufacturing.

在1990年之前，经济改革起效之前，全球制造业中，中国仅占了微薄的3 ％。

12. The resources of New York are rather meagre.

纽约的娱乐场所太少了。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

13. They lived on meagre government grants in their student days.

在学生时期，他们是靠政府的一点救济维持生活的。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

14. 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。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

15. The diet should be suitable, being neither too rich nor too meagre.

饮食应该适当, 既不能太油腻也不能太粗淡。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

16. Our knowledge regarding the effects of ionizing radiations is still meagre.

我们关于电离辐射效应的知识仍很不足。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

17. Particulars are too meagre to form a decision.

详情不明, 难以作出裁断。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

18. New comers cannot believe the place to be as meagre as it is described.

因此新来乍到的人，往往不相信这个地方真像人们描述的那样贫瘠。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

19. The meagre tune, the curt series of demands on Johorah, fused into a prayer unknown in England.

这单调粗糙的旋律和歌词里向耶和华不客气地提出的一连串的要求，溶成一篇在英国没有听说过的祷告词。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

20. Our appeal for help met with a meagre response.

我们求助的呼吁反应冷淡.

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

21. In his plain old suit of black, he looked pale and meagre.

穿上一套朴素的黑色衣服，他越发显得苍白而瘦弱。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句