He received a paltry annuity of $100.
他收到了微不足道的100美元年金。
This account offers a paltry 1% return on your investment.
这个账户给你投资的回报仅是微不足道的1%。
Ye paltry cowards, and arm yourselves and guard the doors, whilst I send one to fetch the watch!
你们这些没用的懦夫，武装起来，守住那些门，我派一个人去叫卫兵！
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。
本次大选投票率仅为47.7%。
They suffered an electoral catastrophe, winning a paltry 3 seats.
他们在选举中惨败，仅获得微不足道的3个席位。
Of course, that rate looks paltry when set against rising US yields.
当然，这个水平与上涨的美国国债收益率相比微不足道。
I am not even speaking here of that paltry eternity that is called posterity.
这里，我甚至没有谈到被称之为子孙后代的那种小小的永恒。
Both the euro area and Latin America are each making a paltry 0.1pp contribution.
欧元区和拉丁美洲的贡献率则分别是微不足道的0.1个百分点。
Box.net's biggest drawback is its free account's filesize limit, which sits at a rather paltry 10mb.
net最大的缺点就是，免费用户的单个文件不能超过10MB。
In 2003 only three of America's 20 biggest Banks were foreign-owned, with a paltry 2.2% share of deposits.
2003年，全美最大的20家银行中仅有3家为外国所有，其存款比重只占微不足道的2.2%。
But sometimes instead of selling theseitems for paltry amounts of cash, online users barter with each other.
但网上用户有时并不想为了小钱把东西简单卖掉，而是互相交换物品。
The world is going to get hungrier this century, and on a scale that will make the famines of the 1980s look paltry.
本世纪，世界的饥饿形势将更加严峻，其规模将使二十世纪八十年代的饥荒状况相形见绌。
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。
Trade within the AMU quintet accounts for a paltry 2% of what the region conducts with the whole of the rest of the world.
阿拉伯马格里布联盟中五个成员国间的贸易额仅占这个地区与世界其他国家贸易额的2%，可谓微不足道。
During the third quarter of 2010, just thirty-three U.S. companies went public, and they raised a paltry five billion dollars.
在2010年第三季度，只有33家美国公司公开募股，而且他们只募集到区区50亿美元。
The one-time kits cost around $5, and if you don't have one the fine is a paltry 11 euros ($15)—but the law is seldom enforced.
这样的一次性设备大约要5美元，如果你没有携带，罚款仅为11欧元（15美元）——但是这条法律很少被执行。
Because he had sold only 800 cases of noodles that month, 200 short of his sales target, Mr. Li's paltry salary was taking a hit.
他那个月只售出了八百包面，比销售目标少了两百包，所以小李本已微薄的工资又遭到了打击。
I was astonished and I gave him some paltry sum which he accepted without a murmur and then, still without saying a word, he went away.
我很吃惊，给他几个小钱，他没吭声就接受了，随后二话没说就走了。
Some of the media companies complain privately about the paltry checks they have received through these deals, even as use of the site has grown.
尽管Hulu的流量持续攀升，但有些媒体公司私下里抱怨从广告分成协议中获得的收入太低了。
I pledge allegiance to everyone who drives an ambulance or teaches a child on this rainy island for paltry wages because they know it's the right thing to do.
我宣誓忠于每一个急救车司机和在这个淫雨霏霏的岛国教育孩子的老师，他们收入微薄，但相信自己所为乃正确之举。
And yet a paltry 10% of the CFR's members expect Britain to become a more important American ally in the future, whereas 58% think that of China and 55% of India.
仅有10%的美国外交学会成员预计英国将来会成为美国更重要的盟友，而58%的人认为是中国，55%认为是印度。
The Sub-Zero PRO 48, which the manufacturer calls "a monument to food preservation", costs about $11,000, compared with a paltry $350 for the IKEA Energisk B18 W.
有一款冰箱Sub-ZeroPRO48，制造商称之为“食品保鲜领域的里程碑”，售价约为11000美元，而在宜家出售的EnergiskB18 W型号的冰箱才区区350美元。
The Sub-Zero PRO 48, which the manufacturer calls "a monument to food preservation", costs about $11,000, compared with a paltry $350 for the IKEA Energisk B18 W.
有一款冰箱Sub-ZeroPRO48，制造商称之为“食品保鲜领域的里程碑”，售价约为11000美元，而在宜家出售的EnergiskB18 W型号的冰箱才区区350美元。
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