Nor can it become protracted by simply pitting the big against the small, the progressive against the reactionary, or abundant support against meagre support.
单是大小或单是进步退步，多助寡助，也是一样。

And how do the poor subsist on such a meagre amount?
穷人又是怎样靠这般小数目维持生活的？

Our appeal for help met with a meagre response.
我们求助得呼吁反应冷淡。

He was so weak from hunger he could hardly raise his meagre arms.
他饿得虚弱无力，连骨瘦如柴的胳膊都举不起来。

His meagre knowledge arouses no sympathy in others.
他见识浅陋, 无人共鸣。

The show is drawing but a meagre audience.
看演出的观众寥寥无几。

the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves.
面包师傅陈列的广告是最粗劣的面包片。

Feasibility study on blast furnace blowing with meagre coal and meagre lean coal
贫煤、贫瘦煤用作高炉喷吹煤的可行性研究

Analysis on Application of Xishan Clean Meagre Coal as an Injetting Coal for Blast Furnace
关于西山贫瘦精煤作为高炉喷吹用煤的分析

Tao Yuanming, unwilling to cringe to eke out a meagre life, ploughs each in bow from then on, no longer become an official.
陶渊明，不愿为五斗米折腰，从此躬耕垄亩，不再出仕。

a meagre meal of bread and cheese
只有面包和奶酪的一餐

a meagre diet of bread and water.
只有面包和水的粗茶淡饭

Certainly, the record of the past decade has been meagre.
当然，过去十年里，他取得的成绩微不足道。

Research on the depolymerization reaction to improve the combustion properties of the lean coal and meagre coal
解聚对贫煤和贫瘦煤燃烧性能的影响

Technological Research on Preparation of Foundry Formed Coke from Coke Powder Mixed with Meagre and Lean Coal
焦粉与贫瘦煤配合制备铸造型焦的工艺研究

Most cities and states will collect only meagre revenues for at least the next year.
不过底特律也并非孤军作战。

At least that would offer the meagre comfort of simplicity.
至少那样能让人感到简单生活下一些少有的舒适感。

On the Commercial Opportunity in Meagre Profit.
微利中的商机

Meanwhile, component prices are plunging, overcapacity is rife and margins are meagre.
与此同时, 元件价格猛增, 生产能力普遍过剩, 差额减少。

cringe to eke out a meagre life
为五斗米折腰

My eyes, dad is always like that, for I love so meagre.
我眼中，爸爸总是这样，对我的爱如此微少。

Particulars are too meagre to form a decision.
详情不明，难以作出裁断。

The forces seemed so meagre, just a few thousand dedicated men and women.
兵力看来很薄弱，只不过是几千个富有献身精神的男女而已。

Oh, that soul was itself meagre, ghastly, and famished and cruelty was the delight of that soul!
哦，这灵魂本身是可怕饥瘦残忍也是那灵魂的乐趣！

On the Meagre Remuneration System in the Ming Dynasty and Its Detriment
试论明代的薄俸制及危害