The food was horrific — dirty water served alongside rotting meat, gruel, and nearly inedible bread.

食物可怕了——脏水配着腐烂的肉、稀粥和几乎不能吃的面包。

For, as he is making increasingly plain, Mr Monti's ideas on how to resolve it are significantly at odds with those of the Germans who have until now been doing most of the ordering—and choosing pretty thin gruel.

因为蒙蒂正愈发清晰地表明在如何解决危机的问题上他与那些德国人的想法大不相同——到目前为止，德国主要是作为发号施令者（此前德国一直认为只有欧元区各国统一标准、严守财政纪律，才能克服欧元区管理存在的结构性缺陷——译注），却没有给出有效的解决措施。

" Oh, certainly, sir! I'll just fetch a little sewing, and then I'll sit as long as you please. But you've caught cold: I saw you shivering, and you must have some gruel to drive it out."

“啊，当然可以，先生！我就去拿点针线来，然后你要我坐多久，都可以。可是你着凉啦。我看见你直哆嗦，你得喝点粥去去寒。”

But after withering away for a month, fed so sparely on rice gruel that he felt an urge to consume the flesh of the dead, he was asked to paint portraits of the regime's leader, Pol Pot.

一个月过去他逐渐消瘦萎靡，吃的不过是稀粥，他只想速死，但这时有人要他去画领袖像：红色高棉的领袖波尔布特（Pol Pot）。

Mrs. March gave the mother tea and gruel, and comforted her with promises of help, while she dressed the little baby as tenderly as if it had been her own.

把茶和麦糊给那个可怜的妇人，并且安慰她，说还会来帮助她的。

Scrooge, in dressing-gown, slippers, and nightcap, sits before a fire. He is eating from a bowl of gruel, and his face is scowling.

[斯克鲁穿着睡衣、拖鞋和睡帽，坐在火炉前。他正吃着一碗稀粥，脸色阴沉。

Now, Olive was truly alone, save the continued kindness of the chief's wife and daughter, which she said sustained her more than any bit of gruel or handful of corn.

现在，奥莉薇真的是孤身一人了，除了酋长的妻子和女儿一直对她很好，她说这比任何粥或一把玉米都更能支撑她。

Hannah had brought me some gruel and dry toast, about, as I supposed, the dinner-hour.

大约在晚餐时分，汉娜给我端来了一些麦片粥和干面包。

Is that… is gruel that not good?

那是不是… 粥就不好喝啊？

Do you suppose my subscribers are going to stand such gruel as that?

你认为我的订阅者会忍受这样的粥吗？

Truthfully, I've endured bitterness on straw and gruel, but dread leaving my infant without heirs.

说实话，我吃过糠咽过菜，但最怕的是留下婴儿却无后人。

Why must you raise a stone And get your gruel in a stew?

为何你总要挑起事端，让自己陷入困境？

Conscience had pricked him, maybe; he had no longer the heart to see the district where he had been Lensmand famishing on home-made gruel and short of money. Or had he got his quarter of a million?

良心已经刺痛了他，也许；他再也不忍心看到他曾经在伦斯曼德所在的地区饥肠辘辘，缺钱吃自制的粥。或者他得到了他的百万分之一？

He had hardly achieved this very unusual gymnastic performance, when Mr. Bumble brought him, with his own hands, a basin of gruel, and the holiday allowance of two ounces and a quarter of bread.

他还没有完成这种非常不寻常的体操表演，班布尔先生就亲手给他端来一盆稀粥和两盎司零四分之一面包的假期津贴。

But at the same time, it contains a thin gruel of high-temperature X-ray-emitting plasma that can rage up to a million degrees.

但同时，它包含一层高温的X射线发射等离子体，温度可以高达上百万度。

Instead, he saved his hard-earned money, ate cheaper meals, plain bread or gruel, and instead of beer, he drank water.

相反，他省下辛苦挣来的钱，吃更便宜的饭菜，比如 plain bread or gruel，不喝啤酒，而是喝水。

So gruel it is we also get more like more of the the crumbling house attacks like at one point.

于是乎，我们不仅目睹了更多类似情节——比如那摇摇欲坠的房屋袭击——甚至一度达到了高潮。

And while you'll see things like  cauliflower soup or barley gruel there's also a recipe for ferrous potion.

你会看到像花椰菜汤或裸麦粥这样的东西，还有一款铁质药剂的配方。

You and I will have a nice basin of gruel together.

- 你和我将一起享用一盆美味的稀粥。

Another source is possible though: the " pamper" sense of coddle may be linked to the word caudle, C-A-U-D-L-E, a curative drink of yore made usually of warm ale or wine mixed with bread or gruel, eggs, sugar, and spices.

不过，另一个可能的来源是：coddle 的“宠爱”含义可能与 caudle 这个词有关，C-A-U-D-L-E，一种过去的治疗饮料，通常由热麦芽酒或葡萄酒与面包或粥、鸡蛋、糖和香料混合制成。