meagre是什么意思_音标_用法_例句

简单释义：

adj. 少量且劣质的

网络 瘦的；微薄；贫乏的

完整释义：

adj.

1.微薄的
2.(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)
3.瘦的;贫乏的;不足的
4.贫瘠的

例句：

1. No one much complains about the minimum wage today; it has improved the meagre lot of hundreds of thousands of low-paid workers.
   如今，对于最低工资没有人有太多的抱怨。它已经改善了成千上万名工人微波的收入。

2. 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%。

3. "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。”

4. Just over half of the population lives on less than 120% of this meagre poverty line.
   超过一半的人口生活在这条本来钱就很少的贫困线的120%以下。

5. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.
   关于奢侈品和舒适品，聪明人往往过着比贫困者更为简单和朴素的生活。

6. Mr Cui, a retired soldier , was unable to find work in his native province and eked out a meagre living by baking sausages .
   崔英杰是一位退伍军人，他无法在家乡找到工作，靠出售烤香肠勉强维持着贫苦的生活。

7. That compares with a meagre doubling in the price of copper this year and a 77% increase in the Shanghai stockmarket.
   与此相比，上涨不过一倍的期货铜，以及上升约77%的上海股市简直微不足道。

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。