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meagre, meager [ˈmiːgə] ADJ

1. meagre:

(人等)瘦的 shòude

2. meagre:

贫乏的 pínfáde

劣质的 lièzhìde

▶ meagrely, meagerly ADV

▶ meagerness N

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English

He pitched only 16 games during the 1913 season, and a meager 13 games over the next three years. en.wikipedia.org

Cargo volume was meager compared with pickup trucks. en.wikipedia.org

Many party leaders and the general public wanted no war with such high costs and meager benefits. en.wikipedia.org

But they all were soon held in densely overcrowded barracks, eating meager portions of bread, and fearing for their lives. en.wikipedia.org

With meager food amounts and no medicine, he succumbed to the diseases that plagued him. en.wikipedia.org

He worked for three or four years, carefully saving what he could from his meager earnings. en.wikipedia.org

There was nothing stopping a litterator from setting up his own school, aside from his meager wages. en.wikipedia.org

Other facilities at the airport, however, were meager. en.wikipedia.org

They came back without food and were willing enough to take the meager rations offered them. en.wikipedia.org

In the final years of her life she lived under meager conditions. en.wikipedia.org

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