1.Profits are meagre, convenience is king, discounters are rife.

利润微薄、便利至上、折扣商店盛行。

2.Data collection is meagre and infrequent.

因为这些数据收少，开展频率也低。

3.But investors have grown impatient with frackers' meagre profits.

但投资者已经对石油公司的微薄利润失去耐心。

4.Yet such services are often meagre.

但这类服务还不完善。

5.For most desert dwellers, life revolves around the meagre rains.

对大多数沙漠居民来说，贫乏的雨水便是生活所有的期盼。

6.The heavy rains threatened North Korea's already meagre food supply.

暴雨致使朝鲜本已微薄的粮食供应雪上加霜。

7.Yet its share of the global export market by value is a meagre 7%.

然而，按值计算，印度在全球芒果出口市场的份额仅为微不足道的7%。

8.Our individual failings are submerged; we become greater than the sum of our meagre parts.

我们个人的缺点被淹没；我们变比我们贫乏部分的总和更强大。

9.The SPD has paid dearly there, winning a meagre 12% of the vote in September.

社民党在图林根州付出高昂的代，却仅仅在9月的选举获微薄的12%的选票。

10.He even saved a large sum of money from his meagre income to finance her marriage.

他甚至从微薄的收入一大笔钱来给孩子结婚用。

11.Mr Yoon's people explained that the venue adds only a meagre 500,000 won to the bill.

尹先生的工作人员解释说，会场只给账单增加微不足道的50万韩元。

12.Help is needed not just for them, but for host communities who share their meagre resources.

需要帮助的不仅是他们，还有那些接待他们并分享微薄资源的社区。

13.She may have walked miles just for that mouse...and such meagre pickings won't sustain a wolf.

它也许奔走几英里只是为抓一只老鼠，如此微薄的回报不足以支撑它的生。

14.But when you look back over the past two decades, the developments seem underwhelming and the returns meagre.

但回顾过去20年会发现，事情的发展似乎不尽如人意，回报也有限。

15.Claimants have expressed dismay at meagre compensation offers, which they feel do not reflect the harm they suffered.

索赔人对微薄的赔偿提议表示失望，他们认为这并不能反映他们所遭受的伤害。

16.It survived by eating plants and the meagre scraps of more dominant animals such as lions, hyenas, and jackals.

它靠吃植物以及更占优势的动物，如狮子、鬣狗和豺的少量残羹剩饭生下来。

17.Most important, investments in Indian streaming offer meagre returns.

最重要的是，对印度流媒体的投资回报微薄。机翻

18.I drew out my purse; a meagre thing it was.

我掏出钱包；这是一件微不足道的事情。机翻

19.This somewhat meagre arsenal, however, consists of mostly modern equipment.

然而， 这个有点微薄的武器库主要由现代设备组成。机翻

20.There was only the meagre light of the moon.

只有微弱的月光。机翻