But even field-based data collection, which costs a pittance by comparison, struggles to achieve financial security.

但即使是基于现场的数据收集，相比之下成本道，也难以实现财务安全。

This being Soviet Russia, that meant doing backbreaking work for a pittance while wallowing in poverty.

这是在苏联，意味着他们生活在贫困之中，为薄的收入做着繁重的工作。

None observed that the uninviting pittance set aside for his midday repast, remained for several days untouched.

甚至没有谁注意到他那薄的薪水连吃午餐都够，一连好几天他都吃午餐。

Though not small, the cost also looks like a pittance compared with many ideas to alleviate intergenerational poverty.

尽管成本小，但与许多缓解代际贫困的法相比，成本似乎也乎其。

Democrats today called that amount a pittance.

今天的民主党人称这一数额道。

Oh, so you're working as somebody's lackey and getting paid a pittance.

乔纳斯：哦，所以你在当某人的走狗并且得到薄的报酬。

Jonas says, " Oh, so you're working as somebody's lackey and getting paid a pittance."

乔纳斯说，“哦，所以你是在做某人的走狗并且得到薄的报酬。

A pittance left to her now, at the eleventh hour?

现在，在最后一刻留给她的是道的？

You have bartered it for a pittance of the public gold.

你用它换取了道的公共黄金。

" To get paid a pittance" (pittance) is to receive a very small amount of money.

“to get paid a pittance”（薄）是指得到极少量的钱。

Then they didn't need to live on a pittance.

然后他们就必靠薄的薪水为生了。

But nothing could have made her worse than before; least of all a pittance left her by the dead.

但是没有什么比以前更糟了。最重要的是死者给她留下了道的东西。

You sold your people for a pittance, gaining nothing from their sale.

你卖了你的子民，也赚利，所得的价值，并加添你的资财。

If it's a very small amount, we might call it a pittance.

如果数量非常少，我们可以称之为道。

A " pittance" is a very small amount of something, almost nothing.

“道”是非常少量的东西，几乎没有。

Probably, um, not. the one of us who's been saving up for a decade... because she makes a pittance compared to the other one of us, but...

也许该是。存了几十年钱就为了这天的那个。因为跟另一个比起来，她赚的过是蝇头小利。

Other scrap metal crews heard it and liked it, so Marco sold it to them for a pittance–five pesos, the equivalent of about a quarter.

其他废金属工作人员听到了它并且喜欢它，所以马可以薄的价格将其卖给他们——五比索，相当于大约四分之一。

The good achieved by each of these “beautiful souls” was small: the few lives the Serb and the Swiss policeman saved were a pittance when set against greater evils they could not stop.

少数人让塞尔维亚人存活了下来，瑞士警察所解救的也只是沧海一粟，对其他更强大的恶势力更是无能为力。

Crystal says, " No, not exactly, " meaning, once again, she's not exactly a lackey and getting paid a pittance, although there might be some truth to that description.

Crystal 说， “，完全是，”意思是，再一次，她完全是一个走狗并且得到薄的报酬， 尽管这种描述可能有些道理。

His personalty was swallowed up in paying his debts, and the Welland estate was so heavily charged with annuities to his distant relatives that only a mere pittance was left for her.

他的个人财产被他的债务吞没了， 韦兰的财产被远亲的年金负担得如此之重， 以至于只剩下道的钱给她。