pittance

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• People, usually migrants from rural areas and jobless citizens, are hired to queue up for different types of tickets in large cities in return for a pittance.(在大城市里被雇来替别人排队获取不同类票证，以获得微薄报酬的那些人，通常是来自乡村地区的移民者和无业人员。)
• The emergency food and medicine that47of the world's wealthiest nations have now promised to send to the former Soviet Union amount to a pittance. But the gesture is important.(世界上最富有的47个国家对前苏联所承诺提供的食物与药品不过区区之数，但是意义重大。)
• 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。)
• That, alas, is a mere pittance in the context of this year's broader lending spree.(令人遗憾的是，这在今年的广泛的贷款热潮中甚是微薄。)
• This reserve is earning "a pittance," he says. "But we sleep well."(他说，这笔储备赚钱很少，但保证“我们睡的安稳”。)
• Gilbert should be thanking him too — the salary he doled out to James was a pittance compared to the victories and money that rolled in during his Cleveland reign.(吉尔伯特也应该感谢他，因为相对于詹姆斯为克利夫兰带来的胜利和金钱而言，吉尔伯特付给他的薪水可谓微薄至极。)
• Qin: Now, young man, don't you think it's about time we raised the rent a bit?The pittance your father used to pay me as rent won't even pay my tea!(秦仲义：小王，这儿的房租是不是得往上提那么一提呢?当年你爸爸给我的那点租钱，还不够我喝茶用的呢！)
• The poorest 51 countries received just 8 per cent of total capital flows - a pittance when compared with the whole pie.(最贫困的51个国家只获得了全部资本流动的8%-与整个蛋糕相比微乎其微。)
• For the world's second-largest economy, it is a pittance.(对于世界第二大经济大国来说，这个数字少的可怜。)
• If anybody believes in the basketball gods or whatever, he has paid his pittance to them.(如果有篮球上帝或者什么的，他应该看到奥多姆已经付出很多了。)