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

利润微薄、便利至上、折扣商店盛行。

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。

Data collection is meagre and infrequent.

因为这些数据收集得很少，开展频率也很低。

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。

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

然而，按价值计算，印度在全芒果出口市场的份额仅为微不足道的7%。

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。

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

个人的缺点被淹没；变得比贫乏部分的总和更强大。

Yet such services are often meagre.

但这服务还不完善。

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价，却仅仅在9月的选举中获得微薄的12%的选票。

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。

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，还有那些接待他并分享微薄资源的社区。

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中存一大笔钱来给孩子结婚用。

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存。

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，回报也很有限。

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，他认为这并不能反映他所遭受的伤害。

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存下来。

His visage was meagre, his hair lank and thin, and his voice hollow.

他面容憔悴，头发稀疏，声音低沉。

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

掏出钱包；这是一件微不足道的事情。

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。

He made no answer, but sat down to his meagre meal.

他没有回答，只是坐下来吃他微薄的饭。