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

微薄、便至上、折扣商店盛行。

Yet such services are often meagre.

但这类服务还不完善。

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

对大多数沙漠居民来说，贫乏雨水便是活所有期盼。

Data collection is meagre and infrequent.

因为这些数据收集得很少，开展频率也很低。

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

我们个人缺点被淹没了；我们变得比我们贫乏部分和更强大。

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了高昂代价，却仅仅在9选举中获得了微薄12%选票。

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

他甚至从微薄收入中存了一大笔钱来给孩子结婚用。

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

需要帮助不仅是他们，还有那些接待他们并分享微薄资源社区。

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

暴雨致使朝鲜本已微薄粮食供应雪上加霜。

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

也许奔走了几英里只是为了抓一只老鼠，如此微薄回报不足以支撑存。

But investors have grown impatient with frackers' meagre profits.

但投资者已经对石油公司微薄失去了耐心。

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

索赔人对微薄赔偿提议表示失望，他们认为这并不能反映他们所遭受伤害。

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

靠吃植物以及更占优势动物，如狮子、鬣狗和豺少量残羹剩饭存下来。

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

尹先工作人员解释说，会场只给账单增加了微不足道50万韩元。

Most important, investments in Indian streaming offer meagre returns.

最重要是，对印度流媒体投资回报微薄。

" Your letters were so meagre—I could never tell" !

“你信太少了——我永远也说不出来” ！

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

我掏出钱包；这是一件微不足道事情。

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

然而， 这个有点微薄武器库主要由现代设备组成。

There was only the meagre light of the moon.

只有微弱光。

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饭。