pittance的例句
- 1. Her secretaries work tirelessly for a pittance.
- 她的秘书们为了一点微薄的工资不知疲倦地工作。
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- 2. People, usually migrants from rural areas and jobless citizens, are hired to queue up for different types of tickets in large cities in return for a pittance.
- 在大城市里被雇来替别人排队获取不同类票证,以获得微薄报酬的那些人,通常是来自乡村地区的移民者和无业人员。
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- 3. People, usually migrants from rural areas and jobless citizens, are hired to queue up for different types of tickets in large cities in return for a pittance.
- 在大城市里被雇来替别人排队获取不同类票证,以获得微薄报酬的那些人,通常是来自乡村地区的移民者和无业人员。
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- 4. It was a pittance.
- 这是一个微不足道。
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- 5. For the world's second-largest economy, it is a pittance.
- 对于世界第二大经济大国来说,这个数字少的可怜。
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- 6. How can I take and hold the wealth of another for a pittance?
- 我怎样才能拥有并控制另一种财富呢?
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- 7. This reserve is earning "a pittance," he says. "But we sleep well."
- 他说,这笔储备赚钱很少,但保证“我们睡的安稳”。
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- 8. Footballers were paid a pittance, but at least they were paid on time.
- 当然,那时球员们拿到的薪水很微薄,但起码还能按时拿到工资呢。
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- 9. That, alas, is a mere pittance in the context of this year's broader lending spree.
- 令人遗憾的是,这在今年的广泛的贷款热潮中甚是微薄。
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- 10. If anybody believes in the basketball gods or whatever, he has paid his pittance to them.
- 如果有篮球上帝或者什么的,他应该看到奥多姆已经付出很多了。
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- 11. This helps to explain why advertisers will only pay a pittance for page views on many social networks.
- 这有助于解释为什么广告商按页面浏览量只付给许多社交网微薄的广告费。
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- 12. The shrewd Hutt kept Barada forever in his debt by paying him a pittance yet charging him room and board.
- 精明的赫特人给他住处和食物,但只支付微薄的工资,让他永远债台高筑。
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- 13. Fund managers, who allocated a pittance to commodities a few years ago, now put up to 5% of their cash into them.
- 同几年前的九牛一毛相比,现如今,基金经理将高达5%的现金都投入商品期货市场。
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- 14. Family, place. For what?A lifetime of dudgery on a pittance?A child every year and no means to lighten the load?
- 家庭、地位、为了什么? 辛辛苦苦一辈子?孩子一个个多起来,肩上永远扛着担子?。
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- 15. The derivatives market is $531 trillion, up from $106 trillion in 2002 and a relative pittance just two decades ago.
- 仅仅在20年前,金融衍生品市场几乎可以忽略不计。到2002年这一市场的规模膨胀到106万亿美元。
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- 16. The poorest 51 countries received just 8 per cent of total capital flows - a pittance when compared with the whole pie.
- 最贫困的51个国家只获得了全部资本流动的8%-与整个蛋糕相比微乎其微。
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- 17. The few jobs now being created too often pay a pittance, not nearly enough to pry open the doors to a middle-class standard of living.
- 当前创造的就业机会也只是杯水车薪,还远远无法达到中产阶级的生活水准。
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- 18. Though the stipends are usually a pittance, they make a difference to the poorest because they are reliable-unlike the rest of the poor's income.
- 虽然这些津贴通常很微薄,但是确实对最穷的人们起到了作用,因为相对于穷人的工资的结余,这些津贴更为可靠。
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- 19. Rodrigo, an engineer in a small town in central Cuba surrounded by cane fields, says there is no point in practising his profession for a pittance.
- 罗德里格是一位居住在古巴中部一个四处是甘蔗地的小镇上的工程师,他讲道,他从事着自己职业获取那么一丁点薪俸没有任何意义。
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- 20. Qin: Now, young man, don't you think it's about time we raised the rent a bit?The pittance your father used to pay me as rent won't even pay my tea!
- 秦仲义: 小王, 这儿的房租是不是得往上提那么一提呢?当年你爸爸给我的那点租钱,还不够我喝茶用的呢!
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- 21. In some regions, such as Africa, the exploitation—the extraction of natural resources and the rape of the environment, all in return for a pittance—was obvious.
- 在非洲的一些地区,开采自然资源、破坏自然环境仅给当地带来了微薄的回报,这就是赤裸裸的剥削。
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- 22. Gilbert should be thanking him too — the salary he doled out to James was a pittance compared to the victories and money that rolled in during his Cleveland reign.
- 吉尔伯特也应该感谢他,因为相对于詹姆斯为克利夫兰带来的胜利和金钱而言,吉尔伯特付给他的薪水可谓微薄至极。
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- 23. The emergency food and medicine that47of the world's wealthiest nations have now promised to send to the former Soviet Union amount to a pittance. But the gesture is important.
- 世界上最富有的47个国家对前苏联所承诺提供的食物与药品不过区区之数,但是意义重大。
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- 24. The emergency food and medicine that47of the world's wealthiest nations have now promised to send to the former Soviet Union amount to a pittance. But the gesture is important.
- 世界上最富有的47个国家对前苏联所承诺提供的食物与药品不过区区之数,但是意义重大。
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