| 1. | The widow must live on her slender pittance .
那寡妇只能靠自己微薄的收入过活。 |
| 2. | Please receive my humble thanks .
请接受我这点微薄的谢意。 |
| 3. | He was a man of small means .
他是一个收入微薄的人。 |
| 4. | By frugality she managed to get along on her small salary .
她设法以自己微薄的薪水生活。 |
| 5. | They are grubbing away in underpaid teaching posts .
他们在薪金微薄的教学岗位上辛勤工作着。 |
| 6. | I will even, with all my poor skill, do your good bidding .
我情愿尽我微薄的能力，听从您的吩咐。 |
| 7. | He would have nothing but a teacher's small pension .
他除了为数微薄的教师津贴外，别无其它收入。 |
| 8. | It may be difficult at times to make ends meet on your small income .
靠你微薄的收入，做到收支相抵，有时可能是困难的。 |
| 9. | Pen has no means beyond what his mother allows him out of her slender income .
彭除了母亲从她微薄的收入里给他一些零用钱外，并没什么钱。 |
| 10. | The meager grant of the commons had by no means put an end to his financial distresses .
下议院通过的那一点微薄的赐资根本无从解决他经济上的困难。 |
