meagre

• adj. 瘦的；贫弱的；贫乏的

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英文词源

meagre

meagre: [14] Meagre originally meant literally ‘thin’ (it goes back via Anglo-Norman megre and Old French maigre to Latin macer ‘thin’, source also of English emaciate [17]). Not until the 16th century did the modern figurative sense ‘scanty’ begin to emerge. (Its distant Indo- European ancestor, incidentally, *makró-, also produced a parallel Germanic form mager ‘thin’, shared by German, Dutch, Swedish, and Danish.)
=> emaciate

meagre (adj.)

chiefly British English spelling of meager (q.v.); for spelling, see -re.

双语例句

1. The bank's staff were already angered by a meagre 3.1% pay rise.

银行职员对只加薪3.1%已心生怒火。

来自柯林斯例句

2. The patient isn't restricted to a meagre diet.

并没有限制这位病人少吃东西。

来自柯林斯例句

3. a meagre diet of bread and water

只有面包和水的粗茶淡饭

来自《权威词典》

4. The diet should be suitable, being neither too rich nor too meagre.

膳食应该适当, 即不能太油腻也不能太粗淡.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

5. The show is drawing but a meagre audience.

看演出的观众寥寥无几.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》