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

• 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 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。
• 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。
• His knowledge of Chinese history is meagre.
  他的中国历史知识很贫乏。
• Particulars are too meagre to form a decision.
  详情不足，难以作出决断。
• The show is drawing but a meagre audience.
  看演出的观众寥寥无几。
• But meagre compensation for the loss of that most uncommon of online commoners.
  但这远远无法弥补他的离世带来的损失，因为我们失去的是网络大众中最不同寻常的人物。
• I get only meagre pay.
  我只得到很少的报酬。
• 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%。
• 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。