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微薄利润失去了耐心。

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，印度在全球芒果出口市场份额仅为微不足道7%。

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

对大多数沙漠居民来说，贫乏雨水便是生活所有期盼。

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

我们个缺点被淹没了；我们变得比我们贫乏部分总和更强大。

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代价，却仅仅在9月选举中获得了微薄12%选票。

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

尹先生员解释说，会场只给账单增加了微不足道50万韩元。

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。

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。

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

它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它生存。

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.

它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.

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。

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。