It's difficult to raise a family on a meager income.
依靠微薄的收入是很难养家的。
During their six- to twelve-week voyage, they subsisted on meager rations.
在六到十二周的航行中，他们靠微薄的口粮维持生活。
Members of poor peasant families spun or wove cloth and linens at home for scant remuneration in an attempt to supplement meager family income.
贫穷农民家庭的成员在家纺织布和亚麻以挣得很少的报酬，弥补微薄的家庭收入。
By comparison, the terrestrial planets have meager atmospheres at best.
相比之下，类地行星最多只有稀薄的大气层。
A3: Because of long voyages and meager rations.
A 3：因为长期航行和有限的干粮。
His meager wage is not enough to support their five children.
靠他一个人的微薄工资不足以养活他们的五个孩子。
During their six - to 12-week voyages they lived on meager rations.
在6到12周的航行中，他们依靠微薄的口粮生存。
But our meager strength alone is difficult to achieve significant results.
但是仅凭我们微薄的力量还难以取得显著的成效。
At that time, I was not happy with my meager vocation or the person I had become.
那个时候，我对我的职业或者是我自己不满意。
Actors would gather outside what was left of the building to pick up their meager salaries.
演员们不得不聚集在大楼残骸外面来获取微薄的收入。
The months wore on, but the production of the new gold factory was disappointingly meager.
岁月流逝，流水无痕，但这家新建黄金制造厂的产量少得可怜，令人相当相当地失望。
After a weeks's meager life of bread and beans, he found it hard to resist the sumptuous dinner.
经过一周只有面包和豆子的贫困生后，他发现自己很难抵御这顿丰盛晚宴的诱惑。
I have to do is take my meager power to serve the truth and justice, even if people do not love it.
我所要做的只是以我微薄之力来为真理和正义服务，即使不为人所喜欢也在所不惜。
This is why artists scrape together a meager living for an average of seven years before being noticed.
这就是为什么艺术家们在被注意之前要赞足平均七年时间的贫寒生活。
And if someone said, it's 4%, you'd say, well that's kind of meager, I want a better dividend than that.
如果他说，是4%，你会觉得少，我想要更高的股利。
Stocks of developed countries like the U.S. can appear meager in comparison to those in emerging markets.
与新兴市场相比，美国等发达国家的股市回报可能相形见绌。
The Nissan KA24E engine, while durable, was a heavy, iron-block unit that produced meager power for its size.
尼桑ka24 E铸铁发动机虽然耐用，但是与其产生的动力相比略显笨重。
US Agency for International Development funding increased from a meager $9.3 million in 2008 to $24 million in 2009.
美国国际开发署基金从2008年的930万美元提高至2009年的2400万美元。
He was very good to me, gave me some research work to supplement my meager income, and invited me to his house for dinner.
他对我非常不错，让我做一些研究工作来贴补我那微薄的收入，他还邀请过我到他家去吃饭。
It is because these products are cheap, and given people's meager salaries these ersatz goods are often their only option.
因为这些产品价格低廉，他们微薄的收入只能去消费这些假冒伪劣产品。
It had meager fresh water supplies, however, so Darwin and his botanist friend, Joseph Hooker, set out to change things.
这个岛上的淡水资源非常稀缺，然而也正因为稀缺，所以达尔文与他的植物学家朋友约瑟夫·胡克(Joseph Hooker)便着手改变这一状况。
Yet, despite the meager payoffs of their college degrees, many graduates think the solution is more school, and more debt.
当前，大学学位的回报正在下降，许多毕业生认为解决方式是有更多的学校和更多的债务。
Residents turn to the hawkers for quick meals and cheap goods, and the vendors rely on the meager earnings to scratch out a living.
居民开始在买小贩的快餐和便宜的商品，而商贩们则依赖于微薄的收入维持生存。
She has never seen adoctor and, like many residents of this area, lives in a meager bartereconomy, seldom coming into contact with cash.
她从来没有看过医生，和这一地区的许多居民一样，偶尔进行实物交易，甚少使用、接触现金。
The average of the 51 forecasts was fourth-quarter growth at a meager 0.7% rate, so slow that it will push the unemployment rate higher.
51位经济学家对第四季度经济增幅的平均预测值仅为0.7%，如此之低的增幅可能会进一步推高失业率。
The average of the 51 forecasts was fourth-quarter growth at a meager 0.7% rate, so slow that it will push the unemployment rate higher.
51位经济学家对第四季度经济增幅的平均预测值仅为0.7%，如此之低的增幅可能会进一步推高失业率。
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