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

• The Chinese consumers spending on extravagant branded goods based on their meagre incomes is simply not sustainable.
  中国消费者是基于自己那些少的可怜的收入来消费那些奢侈品牌产品，这完全是不可承受得起的。
• 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。
• The show is drawing but a meagre audience.
  看演出的观众寥寥无几。
• 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。
• 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。
• The patient isn't restricted to a meagre diet
  并没有限制这位病人少吃东西。
• 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。
• Meagre or non-existent social protection explains much of the high household savings rates that have helped finance the region's growth.
  微薄或根本不存在的社会保障，在很大程度上正是该地区高储蓄率的原因所在，而这也为该地区经济增长提供了资金。
• 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。
• Particulars are too meagre to form a decision.
  详情不足，难以作出决断。