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 patient isn't restricted to a meagre diet
  并没有限制这位病人少吃东西。
• Even if the meagre synergies achieved doubled overnight, they would enhance group earnings by just 2-4 per cent.
  即便合并取得的弱小的协同优势在一夜之间扩大一倍，它们也仅会将集团收益提高2%至4%。
• His knowledge of Chinese history is meagre.
  他的中国历史知识很贫乏。
• At least that would offer the meagre comfort of simplicity.
  至少那样能让人感到简单生活下一些少有的舒适感。
• Particulars are too meagre to form a decision.
  详情不足，难以作出决断。
• The show is drawing but a meagre audience.
  看演出的观众寥寥无几。
• The resources of New York are rather meagre.
  纽约的娱乐场所太少了。
• He had nothing save his meagre half-pay as chief of squadron.
  他除了那份极微薄的骑兵队队长的半薪之外，什么都没有。
• It was difficult to live on his meagre earnings.
  他靠微薄的收入难以为生。
• 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。