They offered us a derisory £10 a week.
他们每周给我们 10 英镑,少得可怜。
1.“derisive”的变体
1.if something that you are offered or given is derisory, you feel insulted because it is not very much
2.derisive
1.The variant of derisive
1.Cadbury declined to comment on the formal bid, but a source close to the company said: "The offer is unchanged and still derisory. "
吉百利拒绝就正式收购要约置评,但一位接近该公司的人士表示,“要约没有变动,仍是嘲弄式的。”
2.Lewis, though a spokesman, said the offer 'is derisory , and I do not believe that shareholders will approve it.
他通过发言人表示,那样一个出价“简直是在嘲笑我们,我不相信股东们会同意”。
3.Back then, we used to howl with derisory laughter at those couples in restaurants eating in stony silence.
在那时候,我们还常常疯狂地嘲笑那些在餐厅里死寂一般吃饭的夫妻。
4.All the while, Chinese households are earning derisory income on their savings, and in rural, inland areas poverty remains widespread.
与此同时,中国家庭的储蓄只能获得一点可笑的收益,而在内陆的农村地区,贫困现象仍很普遍。
5.Nor is China's offer derisory. The Americans complain that China's existing policies would achieve those cuts with no extra effort.
中国的提议也不应引发嘲笑,美国人抱怨中方采用现行政策,不做任何额外努力就可以实现减排目标。
6.Her bid was dismissed as a "derisory" offer from a "low-growth conglomerate" .
她的报价遭到拒绝,因为这是来自一家“低增长集团”的“荒谬”报价。
7.Heavy-foot made a derisory noise, proving that he didn't recognize irony when he heard it.
大脚发出了嘲弄的笑声,证明他根本不懂得反话。
8.Few non-Japanese investors own yen cash or bonds, and central bank holdings are similarly derisory.
很少有外国投资者持有日元现金或债券,各国央行的持有量也同样少得可怜。
9.In the first, which Carr sent to Rosenfeld the next week, he called the offer "derisory. "
在一开始,卡尔写信告诉罗森菲尔德他认为这是一项“可笑”的交易。
10.Allied action on the Western front during Hitler's conquest of Poland was derisory.
在希特勒占领波兰期间,盟军在西线几乎没有动作。