| 词汇 | example_english_meagre |
| 释义 | Examples of meagreThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. In 1936, 450,000 older people received the meagre benefits granted to the poor, among them many redundant and unemployed older workers. Efforts to find empirical evidence of opportunistic business cycles have turned up rather meagre results. Table 4 gives the birth rank of obese children in sibships of sizes 2 and 3; data for larger sibships are too meagre for consideration. Wages and other official payments to loyal employees were meagre due to the state's financial difficulties during the war. The work represents quite an achievement given the meagre funding available to polar tourism researchers. Some of those who witnessed this new player on the political stage rushed home to hide their meagre possessions in safe places. This view is a rather mean and meagre vision of democracy. But parish resources were meagre and even the deserving might have to await the death of other paupers before receiving relief. Attempts to detect non-randomness by examination of cell counts alone, when those counts represent a meagre sample of sparsely distributed individuals, can only prove frustrating. The results were rather meagre, most noticeably in the courtrooms. Critics have averred that war crimes trials are meagre tools for advancing the claims of traumatic history, being essentially reductive and individualistic. One disappointment is the rather meagre use of interview material. Yet he was almost certainly hugely grateful that such an opportunity allowed him to supplement his otherwise meagre income. From such a viewpoint, quitting may seem to have a too meagre prospect of succeeding to be worth trying. I am aware that all these omissions may render the material presented here somewhat meagre. The transaction-centred view strives to avoid being either meagre or unsatisfactory. There are two reasons why research in this area has been so meagre. In both of them, the author squeezes as much material, as many facts, as he can from his meagre sources. She lived on her meagre earnings from selling her collection of vegetables and cardboard found on the streets. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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