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。
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。
Meagre returns have not helped.
基金微薄的回报也帮不上什么忙。
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。
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。
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。
Oh, that soul was itself meagre, ghastly, and famished; and cruelty was the delight of that soul!
哦，这灵魂本身是可怕饥瘦；残忍也是那灵魂的乐趣！
The unemployment rate fell to 9.5% in June, but the private sector created a meagre 83, 000 jobs.
六月份失业率跌至9.5%，但是私营部门仅增加了很少的8，3000个工作岗位。
Those sums are due to fall soon, when a temporary boost expires.Even the current package is meagre.
当临时支援到期后，该救济金额就会减少，尽管目前该救济金额很微薄。
It also required firms to hire workers through a state employment agency that paid meagre salaries.
除此之外，还要求这些外资公司通过一个国家职介所雇佣廉价工人。——That后面我觉得是修饰WORKER的。
That is because it has lost most of its meagre revenues, 85% of which came from in or near the capital.
那是因为它失去了大部分少量的财政收入，85%的收入来自首都或首都附近地区。
According to Barclays Capital, the annualised real return since the start of 2003 has been a meagre 1%.
据巴克莱资本的计算，自2003年以来，其年化真实回报率仅为1%。
Will any of these measures help to lift France's growth rate from its recent meagre average of 2% a year?
所有这些措施有助于法国提高当前可怜的每年2%的经济增长率吗？
It is cheap, friendly, convenient and performs a vital service in countries with meagre public transport systems.
这种汽车非常廉价、舒适、便捷，给公共交通系统尚不完善的国家提供了关键性的公共设施服务。
Retail sales showed meagre growth last month as cash-strapped consumers cut back spending despite summer sale discounts.
零售业数据显示上个月的微薄增长是因为资金短缺的消费者无视夏季大减价依然消减开支。
Private employment rose a meagre 41,000, an anticlimax after other signs that America's recovery was gathering steam.
私人雇佣增加少许，只有41000个，这有些反周期，因为诸多迹象表明美国经济复原正蓄势待发。
Private employment rose a meagre 41,000, an anticlimax after other signs that America's recovery was gathering steam.
私人雇佣增加少许，只有41000个，这有些反周期，因为诸多迹象表明美国经济复原正蓄势待发。
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