How else could this instrument make so much out of barely three dozen measly morsels of sound?
仅仅采用三十多个简单的音节，语言究竟是如何创造出这么多词句呢？
Dominic, the show-off of the group, picked up one measly pear, put it on top of his snout, and performed a balancing act as we made our way back to the cave.
多米尼克，队伍里最爱耍酷的家伙，拿起一个很小的梨子，把梨子顶在鼻子上玩找平衡的杂耍，在我们回山洞的路上捣腾个没完。
Why are women a measly 3% of Fortune 500 CEOs?
为什么财富500强的CEO只有3%的女性？
What a measly birthday present!
多么小气的生日礼物哇！
Four hours later-four measly hours!
四个小时后——短短四个小时！
It had grown only four measly shoots!
大蒜头上还只得三四茎嫩芽！
He gave us measly little portions of cake.
他给了我们少得可怜的一点蛋糕。
You mean saving some measly ants means saving lives?
你说我救了一些小蚂蚁就是救了许多生命？
On those reserves, Banks receive measly 2% in interest.
银行只能从这种储备中得到2%的收益率。
What? You mean saving some measly ants means saving lives?
什么？你说我救了一些小蚂蚁就是救了许多生命？
The average British bathroom measures a measly 3.5 square metres.
英国人的卫生间平均只有区区3.5平方米。
Overcome those measly little obstacles and allow yourself to dream.
克服这些障碍，让自己敢于梦想。
Guess what: We're just a measly month away from holiday kick-off time.
猜猜怎么着？我们离假期的开始还有不长的一个月。
With land at a premium, nearly 80% was incinerated, and a measly 16% recycled.
在土地资源宝贵的情况下，其中80%被焚毁，只有区区16%被回收。
The personal savings percentage in the US is a measly 4.9% of disposable income.
在美国，个人存款占可支配收入的比重仅有4.9%。
Only 23 percent have taken a self-defense class. And a measly 6 percent always run with a partner.
只有23%的人上过自我防卫的课程，仅仅6%的人经常和同伴一起跑步。
If the stock market goes up 50 percent, an annuity owner's annual 8 percent can feel measly by comparison.
如果股票市场收益增长了50%，年金投资者得到的8%就看起来微不足道了。
And a measly 35 percent said they would give up the Internet if doing so would allow them to cure cancer.
而仅有35%的人愿意放弃上网来换取治愈癌症的能力。
But by the time I reached 30 years of age, my own body had ground to a halt at the measly height of 6ft 2in.
但我到30岁时，身体不再长了，只有6英尺2英寸。
Retail investors, disappointed with measly returns on savings accounts, are piling into corporate-bond funds.
零售投资者对于仅仅由储蓄账户带来的回报感到失望，因而涌入公司债基金市场。
Natural selection is like a robot that can only climb uphill, even if this leaves it stuck on top of a measly hillock.
自然选择就如同一个只能上山的机器人，即使这会使它停留在一座微不足道的小山的山顶。
It is a potent magnet for those millions of country people who can barely live off the measly landholdings available to them.
数百万的农村人在自己极少的土地上几乎到了无法生存的地步，这样城市生活就成了他们的一个强烈向往。
The central European economies shrank by an average of 3.6% in 2009, and the World Bank expects them to grow by a measly 1.6% this year.
中欧经济体2009年经济平均缩水3.6%，世界银行预计今年仅能增长1.6%。
For JOS, however, we will use the conventional hard drive boot mechanism, which means that our boot loader must fit into a measly 512 bytes.
不过对于JOS，我们将使用传统的硬盘驱动器启动机制，这意味着我们的启动引导程序必须符合那微不足道的512字节。
The bid to cover ratio (a measure of demand for the debt) for the fresh offering of 10-year bunds was a measly 1.1, making it the worst bund auction in history.
新发行的10年期国债几乎无人问津，投标覆盖比率仅为1.1，成为历史上最糟糕的债权拍卖。
After advancing at a measly 1.5% per year for more than two decades, productivity growth soared to an average of 2.5% a year in the late 1990s and over 3% a year between 2002 and 2004.
在以年均增长1.5%的速度增长了二十多年以后，在1990年代后期生产率增长速度猛增到年均增长2.5%，以及在2002年到2004年之间增长速度超过3%。
After advancing at a measly 1.5% per year for more than two decades, productivity growth soared to an average of 2.5% a year in the late 1990s and over 3% a year between 2002 and 2004.
在以年均增长1.5%的速度增长了二十多年以后，在1990年代后期生产率增长速度猛增到年均增长2.5%，以及在2002年到2004年之间增长速度超过3%。
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