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。

Do I ask you to come into my workplace and supplement my meager income?

我问过你来我的办公室看看，然后补充一下我贫瘠的收入嘛？

Other elderly people resort to petty theft to increase their meager purchasing power.

一些老人小偷小摸，以增加他们微薄的购买力。

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。

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。

Indeed, Reagan ushered in an era in which a small minority grew vastly rich, while working families saw only meager gains.

的确，里根引入了一个新的时代，在这个时代里一小部分人迅速地累计财富，而工薪家庭却只能得到微薄的收入。

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。

About now, new CEO Gorman is probably learning that the meager profits of a retail brokerage can't pay for all those monster Wall Street bonuses.

眼下，这位大摩新掌门或许意识到了来自零售经纪业务的微薄盈利还不够华尔街薪酬的血盆大口塞牙缝。

Senator Barack Obama has put out such meager information that voters have to take it largely on his campaign's say-so that he is in good health.

关于奥巴马的信息寥寥无几，人们只能通过他竞选时自己的说法来判断：健康状况很好。