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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Like the gentleman who fondly lectures the beggar before dropping a meager coin into his jar, they came to Africa with an innate sense of superiority.

他们带着一种天生的优越感来到非洲，如同那个把一枚少得可怜的硬币投进罐子前温情地对乞丐说教一番的绅士。

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About now, new CEO Gorman is probably learning that the meager profits of a retail brokerage can't pay for all those monster Wall Street bonuses.

眼下，这位大摩新掌门或许意识到了来自零售经纪业务的微薄盈利还不够华尔街薪酬的血盆大口塞牙缝。

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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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Trading takes place a meager three hours a day, from 9 a.m. to noon, with price fixings at 10 a.m. and 11 a.m.

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Excluding one-time items the number came to a meager 70 cents, a 31% drop, and below the consensus estimate of 75 cents per share.

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Before that, Twitter users micro-messaged a meager 300, 000 items a day.

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