His meagre allotment of petrol had to be saved for emergencies.

他的天然气的微薄份额必须省下以备急用。

She has moved to a small house and is living off her meagre savings.

她搬进了一幢小房子，靠自己微薄的积蓄过日子。

Most adverts are just too meagre in informative content and too rich in emotional suggestive detail to be read literally.

大多数广告只是在信息内容上太贫乏，而在情感暗示细节上太丰富，无法逐字阅读。

Venture into this terrain and you get some idea of the hardships facing anyone who calls this home: farming is out of the question and nature offers meagre pickings.

冒险进入这片土地，你就会对任何一个把这里称为家的人所面临的困难有一些了解：耕作是不可能的，而大自然却只能提供微薄的收成。

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。

The rations that they gave us were meagre and inadequate.

他们给我们的配给量是很少的，是不够的。

Please you, sir, my meagre tale is told.

先生，我平淡的故事讲完了。

The meagre Latin class recited with honor.

只有几个人的拉丁语班充满自豪地背诵。

It performed these uncontroversial tasks by and large with meagre success.

总的来说，它完成了这些毫无争议的任务，但收效甚微。

The show is drawing but a meagre audience.

看演出的观众寥寥无几。

Particulars are too meagre to form a decision.

详情不足，难以作出决断。

The diet should be suitable, being neither too rich nor too meagre.

饮食应该适当， 既不能太油腻也不能太粗淡。

Meagre returns have not helped.

基金微薄的回报也帮不上什么忙。

Even the current package is meagre.

实际上即使是现在提供的救济也是微不足道的。

The region’s last two rainy seasons were meagre.

这些地区过去的两个雨季都降水不足。

And how do the poor subsist on such a meagre amount?

穷人又是怎样靠这般小数目维持生活的？

Certainly, the record of the past decade has been meagre.

当然，过去十年里，他取得的成绩微不足道。

This seems a meagre return for over six years of negotiations.

付出了长达6年多的谈判，这么点回报似乎太少。

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。

But it is a meagre sandbag against the rising waters of unemployment.

但这对不断增加的失业人数来说，只是杯水车薪。

But households' meagre state incomes were boosted by market activities.

但市场活动使得家庭原本微薄的收入变得水涨船高。

Despite their hoards of cash, many firms offer shareholders meagre returns.

尽管他们有一些现金的储备，很多的公司给股东的回报是很微弱的。

To supplement their meagre income, often he used to go fishing with his friends.

为了添补其微薄的收入，他经常与朋友们一起去钓鱼。

But why would investors accept meagre yields if they expected a vigorous recovery?

只是如果投资者期望复苏强劲，为什么还要接受这样微薄的收益呢？

By midweek, heavy rains were hampering the meagre aid operations in the delta.

直到本周三，大雨一直在阻碍三角洲紧缺的救援行动。

The budget this year, for a country of 60m-odd people, is a meagre $2.4 billion.

对刚果这个大约有六千万人口的国家而言，今年的国家预算仅为二百四十亿美元。

Most cities and states will collect only meagre revenues for at least the next year.

大部分的城市和州最慢至明年税收都将少得可怜。

Given that these are so meagre, this might seem to be an unpromising line of inquiry.

既然他们是那么的贫困，看起来这似乎是一个没有好结果的调查。

Meanwhile, component prices are plunging, overcapacity is rife and margins are meagre.

与此同时，元器件产品价格大幅下跌，到处是造产能过剩，利润摊薄。

Kevina has no choice but to work relentlessly to earn enough for her family's meagre needs.

Kevina别无选择，只有不停地工作才能挣足够的钱满足家庭微薄的需求。