meagreness

meagreness

1. The enormous expenditure of effort that ist entailed did not seem to be justified by the meagreness of the fruit.

在显少的成果面前，消耗掉的大量努力显得很不合理。

2. He moved over to the window: a smallish, frail figure, the meagreness of his body merely emphasized by the blue overalls which were the uniform of the party.

温斯顿走到窗户前：他身材矮小，身体虚弱，一身蓝工作服（这还是党的制服哩）显得他越发消瘦。

3. Noticing our visible embarrassment with its meagreness and wavering between questions and silence, my father involuntarily expelled a deep sigh ...

父亲发现我们面有难色，欲言又止。不由深深地叹了口气。