英语词汇“example_english_meagre-allowance”的音标、意思、用法及中文翻译-反思网

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This even is a very meagreallowance, which only reckons for five one-man range-finders per battalion.
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I should like to mention the plight of many widows who have to live on a very meagreallowance.
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What are the reasons for this meagreallowance?
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The very fact that the wife without a child has a meagreallowance means that she has no protection.
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The present system provides a meagreallowance.
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His father made him a meagreallowance, and he was heavily encumbered with debt.
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It seems to me all wrong that these meagre allowances should be paid in this way.
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These are very meagre allowances, and it is extremely hard for some of these people to keep going.
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Men injured in the course of their employment have, because of the meagre allowances, in thousands of cases to resort to public assistance.
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They should be free from living upon relatives, free from continuous inquisitions and inquiries, free from struggling on meagre allowances.
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But he is also given much too meagre allowances for replacements of machinery.
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Knowledge is now spreading in the community of the stoppages made from these men's pay, and of the meagre allowances to the wife.
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Obtaining only meagre allowances, he had frequent recourse to his friends, constantly borrowing money and still going hungry for days at a time; he learned that his daughter had died.
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