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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During their six- to twelve-week voyage, they subsisted on meager rations.

在六到十二周的航行中，他们靠微薄的口粮维持生活。

youdao

Members of poor peasant families spun or wove cloth and linens at home for scant remuneration in an attempt to supplement meager family income.

贫穷农民家庭的成员在家纺织布和亚麻以挣得很少的报酬，弥补微薄的家庭收入。

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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.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

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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He was born in relatively meager and humble circumstances in Kentucky, not what, about 80 miles from where Abraham Lincoln was born, in even meagerer circumstances.

他出生在肯塔基州一个,相对贫寒的家庭,不过不是约80英里外林肯出生的,那个更穷苦的地方

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He notes that the historical return got a large boost from dividends, and that dividends are meager today.

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Particularly since Christie's father made his meager living beating out the mattresses of the rich.

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Consumer confidence is down, though spending is surprisingly better than expected (dipping into meager savings?).

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