A WORD, A WORLD
pittance
释义
- n.
- 微薄的工资；极少的报酬
- 网络
- 微薄的薪俸；微薄的收入；少量
展开详细释义
n.
1.少量食物;少量收入
2.小额施舍
词形变化
复数：pittances
在例句中理解 31 句
if both girls had married, this beauty would have had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to a very serious extent.
所以很明显，如果两个女孩都结婚了，这好人就只剩下很少的薪俸了，而且其中一个就可能把他推到严重的境地。
Fund managers, who allocated a pittance to commodities a few years ago, now put up to 5% of their cash into them.
几年前，基金经理将很小一部分资金用于商品（投机）领域，如今已经增加到5%了。
At the moment mainland residents can legally move only a pittance abroad in any given year.
目前，中国大陆的居民每年通过合法的方式只能够转移少量的资金到海外。
They might be well-to-do, but their finances were a pittance in comparison with the Culhances'.
他们会富裕的，但是与卡亨斯家族相比，他们的钱财是很微薄的。
But together they owned a mere 1. 2 percent of the company, a pittance given the size of those investment companies.
但是这两家合计仅拥有其1.2%的股份，考虑到这两家投资公司的规模，这点持有量实在少得多可怜。
The shrewd Hutt kept Barada forever in his debt by paying him a pittance yet charging him room and board.
精明的赫特人给他住处和食物，但只支付微薄的工资，让他永远债台高筑。
Although many of the poorest now get some kind of government support, it is only a pittance.
虽然现在许多最贫穷的人得到政府的一些帮助，但是那仅仅是小小的施舍。
According to Prof Mathews, these illegal workers carry the economy of Chungking Mansions as they are willing to work for a pittance.
麦登高表示，这些非法劳工撑起了重庆大厦的经济，他们愿以微薄的薪水干活。
The pittance your father used to pay me as rent won't even keep me in tea.
当年你爸爸给我的那点租钱，还不够我喝茶用的呢。
So $50, 000 might be a fortune in a small town, but a mere pittance in a big city.
所以，50,000美元可能在一个小镇是一笔财富，但是在大城市仅仅是微薄的报酬。
The abundant supply of migrants willing to work for a pittance is slowing.
愿意为微薄薪水工作的农民工的充沛供应正在放缓。
Some evicted civilians were then forced back by soldiers to mine the diamonds for a pittance.
一些被驱逐的本地人后来又被士兵强迫回来以微薄的工资开采钻矿。
Eg. The widow must live on her slender pittance.
那寡妇只能靠自己微薄的收入过活。
The Communists seized all private property, and employers provided workers with subsidized housing, the rent a pittance.
共产党掌握着所有个人财产，企业向员工提供补贴住房，员工只需缴纳微薄的费用。
You'll lose everything. Family, place. For what? A lifetime of dudgery on a pittance? A child every year and no means to lighten the load?
你会失去一切的。家庭、地位、为了什么？辛辛苦苦一辈子？孩子一个个多起来，肩上永远扛着担子？
On the pittance you pay me, I've only got a few things.
以你付给我的那点微薄收入我只能买几件而已
The first job that I ever had was delivering newspapers before work but it paid a pittance.
我所做的第一份工作是赶在上班时间之前送报纸，但它只付给我很微薄的报酬。
There is nothing for free people, the Chinese are opening their fat cheque books and pay a pittance for Africa's resources.
没有什么是免费的，中国人拿走非洲的资源，然后打开厚厚的支票本，可怜巴巴的给一点。
While a $57, 000 tax-free check is no pittance, it is important to put that figure in perspective.
然而，一项免税的5.7万美元的支票并不低，正确地看待这一数字非常重要。
Neither set of lenders was paid more than a pittance.
所有的债权人谁都不比谁多得到一个子儿。
This helps to explain why advertisers will only pay a pittance for page views on many social networks.
这有助于解释为什么广告商按页面浏览量只付给许多社交网微薄的广告费。
The peasant laboured for a mere pittance.
农民仅仅是为了微不足道的收入而辛苦地劳作。
According to late reports on Sunday, JPMorgan Chase will buy Bear for a pittance.
根据周日的最新报道，摩根大通准备低价买入贝尔斯登。
Cutting civil-service pay seems unfair to officials who earn a pittance.
减少社会服务方面的支出对于那些收入微薄的公务员来说似乎不公平。
That is a pittance considering the $400 billion or so of losses and write-downs at the world's banks from the credit crisis as a whole.
考虑到世界各银行在信用危机中整体上遭遇了大约4000亿美元的损失和账面价值减少，日本银行的损失实在是微不足道。
This reserve is earning "a pittance, " he says.
因巴菲特手头留有月200亿美元。
They grudged me even my pittance .
他们甚至连微薄的报酬都不舍得给我。
The few jobs now being created too often pay a pittance, not nearly enough to pry open the doors to a middle-class standard of living.
当前创造的就业机会也只是杯水车薪，还远远无法达到中产阶级的生活水准。
Putting the money on deposit in Hong Kong, the main conduit for renminbi settlement, yields a pittance.
香港是人民币结算的主要渠道，而把钱存在香港的收益非常微薄。
because she makes a pittance compared to the other one of us, but-
因为跟另一个比起来她赚的不过是蝇头小利
She raised three children on a pittance.
她靠微薄的收入抚养三个孩子。