It's difficult to raise a family on a meager income.

依靠微薄的收入是很难养家的。

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US Agency for International Development funding increased from a meager $9.3 million in 2008 to $24 million in 2009.

美国国际开发署基金从2008年的930万美元提高至2009年的2400万美元。

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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。

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Even the smallest daily activity, like brushing one's teeth, requires a trip to the tank, where people pay a large portion of their meager salaries for containers of cloudy,brackish water.

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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

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She wants to put some of her meager savings in a bank to take back to the village when she returns, but she has been unable to open an account.

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After the funeral expenses, her mother had to raise two kids on a meager salary.

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Gartner says worldwide PC unit growth in the third quarter was a meager 3.2%.

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Spending is projected to be cut by a meager 1%, so the economic impact should be minimal.

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