a meagre diet of bread and water
只有面包和水的简朴饮食
She supplements her meagre income by cleaning at night.
她靠做夜间清洁工来补贴其微薄的收入。
1.(人,动物等)瘦的;(土地)不毛的;粗陋的,贫弱的;思想贫乏的;枯燥的(作品等)
1.“meager”的变体
1.The variant of meager
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？
2."Pensioners have no voice and are left to survive on a meagre allowance each week that most people would never manage on, " he said.
「退休老人没有声音，被迫每周靠著微薄的退休金维生，多数人光靠这点钱绝对没办法生活，」他说。
3.She said: 'The meagre revenue by government should be directed towards critical needs like health, antiretroviral drugs and education.
她表示：“政府收入原本就少得可怜，应该用到那些有迫切需要的地方，比如卫生、抗逆转录病毒药物以及教育等方面。”
4.Copying gives me access to an infinitely richer and more varied menu of ideas than if I had to limit myself to my own meagre store.
比起我自己腹中那点可怜的存货，抄袭能让我接触到无限丰富和多样的想法。
5.a month and his meagre salary is not enough to pay for the education she wants to give her children.
34美金），他可怜巴巴的收入不足以支付妻子想要给孩子所受的教育。
6.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！
7.I wonder, therefore, whether it was worthwhile to risk a selective default for such a meagre debt reduction effort?
因此，我很怀疑，为了这种力度欠佳的减债方案而承担选择性违约的风险是否值得。
8."When you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind. "
“当你不能度量自己所言、不能用数字将它表达出来时，你的了解就是贫乏的，不能令人满意。”
9.The EU's military capability is meagre; its ability to stand up to Russian pide-and-rule tactics in energy security is feeble.
欧盟的军事实力不强；与俄罗斯在能源安全方面分而治之的策略也是很薄弱的。
10.He was professor of physics in the high school, possessor of a large family, a meagre salary, and a select fund of parrot-learned knowledge.
他是中学的物理老师，养着一大家人，薪水微薄，有一肚子精挑细选的人云亦云的知识。