If you see the paltry bonuses as part of a larger trend at your company, you could consider looking for a job elsewhere.(如果你认为微薄的奖金是你们公司整体趋势的一部分,你可以考虑跳槽。)
Only paltry sums are available for excavating and even less is available for publishing the results and preserving the sites once excavated.(只有很少的钱可以支持挖掘工作,而可以用来公布结果和保存曾经被挖掘的遗址的钱就更少了。)
To poor countries, this sounds paltry: responses range from "bribery" to "it will not even pay for the coffins".(对穷国来说,这听起来太微薄了,故对此的反应从“贿赂”到“连买棺材都不够”不一而足。)
The IIF expects that flows will dwindle to a paltry $165 billion this year.(国际金融协会(IIF)预计,今年私人资本的净流入将减少到区区1650以美金。)
Worse is to come. The IIF expects that flows will dwindle to a paltry $165 billion this year.(更为严重的就来了,IIF预计今年将降至1650美元。)
He received a paltry annuity of $100.(他收到了微不足道的100美元年金。)
Oracle must chuckle every time an open-source operating system company reports its paltry profits or losses.(每当一家开源操作系统公司报告其微薄的利润或亏损时,甲骨文公司肯定会窃笑。)
These paltry and essential belongings, these relative truths are the only ones to stir me.(这些细微却紧要的财产,这些与之关联的真实,才是唯一让我激动之物。)
He'll be happy to get a paltry bonus.(他会很高兴地接受一份微薄的奖金。)
And all insist on that paltry eternity provided us cheaply by the hearts of those who loved us.(一切都在坚守那不足道的永恒,而那些曾经爱过我们的心正是这廉价的提供者。)