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

• I get only meagre pay.
  我只得到很少的报酬。
• Her meagre contribution to our funds
  她给我们基金的微薄捐款
• 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。
• Her knowledge of music is meagre.
  她的音乐知识很贫乏。
• 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 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。
• The Legal Aid Council does not receive its meagre budget on time.
  而法律援助委员会连这些少之又少的资金预算也无法按时收到。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。