chicken feed

英 [ˈtʃɪkɪn fiːd]

美 [ˈtʃɪkɪn fiːd]

n.  一笔微不足道的钱; 一笔钱

牛津词典

noun

• 一笔微不足道的钱；一笔钱
  an amount of money that is not large enough to be important

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 微不足道的钱;很少的一点钱
  If you think that an amount of money is so small it is hardly worth having or considering, you can say that it ischicken feed.
  1. I was making a million a year, but that's chicken feed in the pop business.
     我一年能赚上一百万，不过在流行音乐产业中，这点钱不值一提。

英英释义

noun

• an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride
  Synonym:methamphetaminemethamphetamine hydrochlorideMethedrinemethdeoxyephedrinechalkcrankglassiceshabutrash
• dry mash for poultry
  Synonym:scratch

双语例句

• No chicken feed for me, Catherine said.
  凯瑟琳说：我不是要小钱的人！
• Lack of chicken feed means that chicken farms are having to slaughter their stock.
  鸡饲料的缺乏意味着养鸡场将不得不杀掉饲养的鸡。
• The commerce ministry did not say how it had calculated the level of subsidies received by US farmers, although it said they were the result of the subsidised corn and soyabeans used in chicken feed.
  中国商务部并未说明它是如何计算美国农民得到的补贴水平的，尽管它表示，这些补贴是鸡饲料中的玉米和大豆受到补贴的结果。
• Jennifer: If I do that, I don't just earn chicken feed, I'll have to eat it as well.
  珍妮弗：如果这么做，我赚的钱不仅只够买鸡饲料，我恐怕还得真的吃它维生。
• The money I did earn was chicken feed.
  我挣的钱是杯水车薪。
• He pays his laborers chicken feed.
  他付给工人的工资少得可怜。
• Mr. Tetrick points out that 1.8 trillion eggs are laid globally each year, and chicken feed much of it soy and corn, which require vast amounts of land, water, and fossil fuels to grow accounts for 70% of the cost of an egg.
  蒂特里克指出，全球每年生产的鸡蛋为1.8万亿个，而其中鸡饲料就占到鸡蛋成本的70%。鸡饲料大多为大豆和玉米，生长过程中需要大量土地、水和矿物燃料。
• The Research on chicken Feed With Filter Mud
  滤泥雏鸡料的研究
• Later, when asked about the factory, she said it was only making chicken feed.
  后来，当被问及这家工厂时，她说这只是一家制造鸡饲料的工厂。
• The con master gave the painter a little chicken feed while he himself lived the life of Riley forever.
  巨骗给漆匠一点零头，自己却过著富埒王侯的生活。