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

润微薄、便、折扣商店盛行。

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，印度在全球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。

The cracking had been that of the window shutter downstairs, which the maid-servant was opening to let in the day, now slowly increasing to Nature's meagre allowance at this sickly time of the year.

那哗啦声是楼下百叶窗发出的，女仆正打开窗子好让日光照射进来，此时天色在渐渐放亮，不过，在一年当中这个没有生气的季，日光暗淡。

The problems are particularly acute for students and early-career researchers, who are often paid meagre wages, have to uproot their lives every few years and have few long-term job prospects.

这些问题对于生和早期研究员来说尤其严重，他们通常工资微薄， 每隔几年就必须离开原来的生活， 而且几乎没有长期的工作前景。

In the dead of winter, the monkeys are forced to rummage around the rocks for a few meagre morsels of lichen and moss.

在隆冬，猴子们被迫在石块细细翻找，希望能发现少量的青苔与苔藓。

The livestock is either dying or has been eaten. Food and water is very scarce. We are distributing rations, but they are meagre.

家畜要么频临死亡要么已入口。食物和水所剩无几。我们虽限量分发，但还是远远不够。

Today's HDTV sets begin to look spotty when their meagre 2.1m pixels are spread over screens greater than around 80 inches.

现今的2.1百万分辨率高清电视内容在80英寸的屏幕显示很模糊。

But investors have grown impatient with frackers' meagre profits.

但投资者已经对石油公司的微薄润失去了耐心。

The meagre daylight peered in through the grated windows, and showed him the gaunt figures of the weavers bending over their cases.

微弱的光线透过格栅窗射了进来，使他看见了那些俯在织机台工作的织工们憔悴的身影。

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。

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。

Yet such services are often meagre.

但这类服务还不完善。

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了高昂的代价，却仅仅在9月的选举中获得了微薄的12%的选票。

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

尹先生的工作员解释说，会场只给账单增加了微不足道的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们，还有那些接待他们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.

他甚从微薄的收入中存了一大笔钱来给孩子结婚用。