pittance

pittance

1. " They are paid pints, they a pittance.

“他们只能拿很少的钱。

2. quot;I work focusing on the club's fans, and I work with the maximum passion whether I earn a pittance or millions.

“我专注于为俱乐部的服务,我用最大的热情工作,不论我挣钱多少。

3. A rickshaw puller swallows husks but spits out his life's blood, he strains his utmost for the lowest pittance.

一个拉车的吞的是粗粮,冒出来的是血; 他要卖最大的力气,得最低的报酬;

4. She is soon ringed by hagglers wanting her paltry wares for even less than the pittance she asks.

一群人很快围了过来要买她的这些便宜货,她要价很低,不过围的人想砍得更低。

5. The emergency food and medicine that47of the world's wealthiest nations have now promised to send to the former Soviet Union amount to a pittance.

世界上最富有的47个国家对前苏联所承诺提供的食物与药品不过区区之数,但是意义重大。

6. After he had worked through a few classes, but was still not perfect in everything, the little pittance that the father had saved was all spent, and the boy had to return home to him.

中学毕业后,他上了大学,可是在学业完成前,父亲给他的那点儿钱就用光了,他只得辍学回家.

7. to work for a pittance

为一点小钱而工作

8. My grandmother sewed and mended clothes for a pittance in order to make a living in the 1920s.

为了丰富居民的文化生活,社区大学新开设了舞蹈班。

9. work all day for a mere pittance

为菲薄的报酬整天工作

10. work for a mere pittance

仅为了微薄的收入而工作

11. He fags away for a mere pittance

他为着一点微薄的收入而辛苦地工作。

12. they work all day for a mere pittance.

他仅靠一点微薄收入维持生计。

13. "As soon as they have completed the term of eighty years, they are looked on as dead in law;their heirs immediately succeed to their estates;only a small pittance is reserved for their support;

他们年满八十岁,法律上就认为已经死亡,后嗣马上就可以继承其产业,只留极可怜的一点钱供他们维持生活,贫穷的则由公众来负担。

14. They grudged me even my pittance.

他们甚至连微薄的报酬都不舍得给我。

15. They’re paid a pittance.

他们的薪水少得可怜。

16. He earns a pittance and tells me he will do all he can for Guria, while he's alive, but when he dies, what then?

他告诉我,只要他还活着,他可以为顾瑞亚做任何事,但他死了之后顾瑞亚该怎么办?

17. He lives on a mere pittance.

他靠微薄的收入生活。

18. to pay sb a pittance

付给某人菲薄的工资

19. That, alas, is a mere pittance in the context of this year's broader lending spree.

令人遗憾的是,这在今年的广泛的贷款热潮中甚是微薄。

20. You sold your people for a pittance, gaining nothing from their sale.

你卖了你的子民,也不赚利。所得的价值,并不加添你的资财。

21. those women who teach in our seminaries, academies, and public schools for a miserable pittance;

再加上那些在我们的私立女子学校、高等学府和公立学校任教,却仅仅换来微薄收入的女子;

22. The peasant laboured for a mere pittance.

农民仅仅是为了微不足道的收入而辛苦地劳作。

23. He found it.His wages in a steel factory in Ohio were fatter and more predictable than the pittance he had earned coaxing cotton out of Mississippi's soil.

功夫不负有心人,最后他在俄亥俄的一家钢铁公司找到了份工作,他之前在密西西比州仅仅靠种玉米赚几个钱,而钢铁公司这份工作不仅薪水高,而且稳定。

24. 1. Lawrence fags away for a pittance.

劳伦斯为了一点微薄的收入而辛苦地工作。

25. Untouchables work for a pittance washing clothes at dawn.

印度最低阶层的人为挣取微薄收入而在拂晓时洗衣服。

26. The only consolation is that tight restrictions on both political contributions and spending mean that general elections cost a pittance compared with those next door.

唯一值得庆幸的是,加拿大严格限制政治献金以及选举开销,这意味者加拿大的选举花费与他们的邻居相比,仅仅是九牛一毛。

27. She could barely survive on the pittance she received as a widow's pension

她靠着极少的孤寡抚恤金仅够口

28. She could barely survive on the pittance she received as a widow's pension.

她靠着极少的孤寡抚恤金仅够糊口.

29. * She could barely survive on the pittance she received as a widow's pension.

她靠著极少的孤寡抚恤金仅够 口.

30. The calculable results show that polyolifine has lowal pittance, polyndde is next.

对影响积分发射率的因素进行了讨论。

31. When you doled out the pittance of bread to the starving poor, when you gave those flimsy garments to shield them from the biting frost, did you remember that you were giving to the Lord of glory?

当你们吝啬地拿出一点食物给饥饿的穷人时,当你们把那单薄的衣服加在他们身上抵御严霜时,你们可曾想到你们是在施给荣耀的主吗?

32. At those low wages, few will apply for the job. Who wants to work for a pittance?

很少人会去申请那个低薪的工作,谁想为微薄的薪水工作?

33. a mere pittance

微薄的报酬 一点点薪金或津贴

34. The first job that I ever had was delivering newspapers before work but it paid a pittance.

我所做的第一份工作是赶在上班时间之前送报纸,但它只付给我很微薄的报酬。

35. It is evident, therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to a very serious extent.

所以很明显,如果两个女孩都结婚了,这好人就只剩下很少的薪俸了,而且其中一个就可能把他推到严重的境地。

36. According to Reuters, since BMW sold its British unit Rover in 2000 for a pittance, Daimler’s arch-rival has propagated a philosophy that close mergers and alliances only weaken a brand’s profile.

据路透社报道,自宝马出售罗孚英国股在2000年为微薄,戴姆勒克莱斯勒的主要竞争对手已培植一种哲学的密切合并和结盟只会削弱一个品牌的形象。

37. The men who came to enjoy her couldn't expect anything fancy, not for the pittance they paid.

来找她的并不敢希望她打扮得怎么够格局,他们是按钱数取乐的;

38. The Yang family seldom kept servants for more than three or four days because the master and two mistresses always treated them like slaves, as if only by working them to death could they get value for the pittance they paid them.

杨宅用人,向来是三五天一换的,先生与太太们总以为仆人就是家奴,非把穷人的命要了,不足以对得起那点工钱。

39. not a pittance of remorse.

毫无悔恨之心

40. Over its first three months the game signed up fewer than50,000 subscribers, a pittance, so in June Warner cut bait and agreed to sell the game to Sony.

游戏头3个月的注册人数少于5万人,非常少,所以6月份华纳决定将游戏售予索尼。

41. Now it occurred to him that he was earning a monthly pittance, putting up with all sorts of hardship and even hugging a water can to prevent it freeing. Apparently his broad chest was worth less than a small can.

现在,他似乎看出来,一月只挣那么些钱,而把所有的苦处都得受过来,连个小水筒也不许冻上,而必得在胸前抱着,自己的胸脯多么宽,仿佛还没有个小筒儿值钱。

42. Rodrigo, an engineer in a small town in central Cuba surrounded by cane fields, says there is no point in practising his profession for a pittance.

罗德里格是一位居住在古巴中部一个四处是甘蔗地的小镇上的工程师,他讲道,他从事着自己职业获取那么一丁点薪俸没有任何意义。

43. That is a pittance considering the $400 billion or so of losses and write-downs at the world's banks from the credit crisis as a whole.

考虑到世界各银行在信用危机中整体上遭遇了大约4000亿美元的损失和账面价值减少,日本银行的损失实在是微不足道。

44. Earning 1,200 yuan ($169) per month working in a factory is better than a pittance on a farm, but as Wang points out, it's not a dream career.

虽然仔工厂打工每月1200元(169美元)的收入比在农村务农的收入高那么一些,但王洪军指出,这不是一个理想的职业。

45. The value of the dog food was a pittance compared with what I would pay in doctor bills and medicine, not to mention the considerable physical pain of essentially kneecapping myself.

跟医药费相比,狗粮的价值几乎微不足道,更不用说我因为膝盖骨折而在肉体上承受的巨大痛苦了。

46. Cindy: Come on, Michael, Are you going to put the whole burden on me? the pittance our shop earns not even cover the bills.

辛蒂:哎呀,迈克尔,你想让我一个人全承担啊?我们那个小店赚来那点小钱还不够支付日常开支呢。

47. In these intervals he was able to shake off a bit of his melancholy and enjoy a pittance of fun.

这其间他有小的忧愁,也有小的快乐。 他把输掉的钱全赢回来了。

48. It's a pittance of time.

这只用一点点时间。

49. We aren't talking a pittance here.

这可不是一笔小数目。

50. This helps to explain why advertisers will only pay a pittance for page views on many social networks.

这有助于解释为什么广告商按页面浏览量只付给许多社交网微薄的广告费。

51. The widow must live on her slender pittance

那寡妇只能靠自己微薄的收入过活。

52. And Nomura paid a pittance for the European, Asian and Middle Eastern operations of Lehman Brothers after it went bust.

野村在雷曼兄弟宣布破产后也以较少的金额购入了其在欧洲、亚洲和中东地区的部分业务。

53. She could barely survive on the pittance she received as a pension.

靠那点微不足道的退休金,她简直无法过活。

54. The Territory Environment Centre and the Australian Maritime Conservation Society says the carcasses minus their fins are being sold as fertiliser for a pittance.

领域环境中心和澳大利亚保护团体称被褪皮的鲨鱼尸体正被人们像肥料一样廉价出售。

55. You are not working for some firm merely for the pittance they pay you.You are part of the great scheme of things.

(你在某个公司打工并不是为了去挣那一点点微薄的薪水,你只是在做着你人生规划中的一部分事情。

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