He was very good to me, gave me some research work to supplement my meager income, and invited me to his house for dinner.(他对我非常不错，让我做一些研究工作来贴补我那微薄的收入，他还邀请过我到他家去吃饭。)
She has never seen adoctor and, like many residents of this area, lives in a meager bartereconomy, seldom coming into contact with cash.(她从来没有看过医生，和这一地区的许多居民一样，偶尔进行实物交易，甚少使用、接触现金。)
And if someone said, it's 4%, you'd say, well that's kind of meager, I want a better dividend than that.(如果他说，是4%，你会觉得少，我想要更高的股利。)
Members of poor peasant families spun or wove cloth and linens at home for scant remuneration in an attempt to supplement meager family income.(贫穷农民家庭的成员在家纺织布和亚麻以挣得很少的报酬，弥补微薄的家庭收入。)
It is because these products are cheap, and given people's meager salaries these ersatz goods are often their only option.(因为这些产品价格低廉，他们微薄的收入只能去消费这些假冒伪劣产品。)
Instead of lunching with my business associates, I would seek out some cheap cafe, order a meager meal and scribble my harmony exercises.(我不与业务合伙人共进午餐，总是找个便宜的餐馆，随便混上一顿，信手写些和声练习曲。)
During their six- to twelve-week voyage, they subsisted on meager rations.(在六到十二周的航行中，他们靠微薄的口粮维持生活。)
It's difficult to raise a family on a meager income.(依靠微薄的收入是很难养家的。)
About now, new CEO Gorman is probably learning that the meager profits of a retail brokerage can't pay for all those monster Wall Street bonuses.(眼下，这位大摩新掌门或许意识到了来自零售经纪业务的微薄盈利还不够华尔街薪酬的血盆大口塞牙缝。)
Do I ask you to come into my workplace and supplement my meager income?(我问过你来我的办公室看看，然后补充一下我贫瘠的收入嘛？)
