lean years

The company has apparently recovered from lean years.

公司明显已经从营利甚少的那几年复苏过来了.

His early years at the bar were very lean.

他早年在律师界的工作毫无起色。

Here I was twelve years old, and my Dad would lean over and kiss me good-bye!

那时我已经12岁了，而爸爸还俯身给我一个道别的亲吻。

The article also discussed the argumentative question of the conscription in the lean years.

对“荒年募兵”等学界存在争论的问题,本文也进行了探讨.

The company recovered well after going through several lean years.

经历了几年的萧条后，这家公司的业务才完全恢复了正常。

In recent years, the cinema has fallen on lean times.

近几年, 电影业遇上了不景气时期.

Even in the fat years a farmer has to bear the lean years in mind.

即便是在丰年，农户们也必须记住歉收的年成。

As we all know, the lean years are upon us as the economic downturn deepens, money gets tighter and tighter, and our interdependent world is beset by one global crisis after another.

众所周知，随着经济下滑加剧，资金日益紧张，在我们相互依存的世界上，全球危机接连不断。

Thanks to rising agricultural productivity, lean years are rarer all over the globe.

由于农业增产，全球的不景气日子更加罕见了。

In more than ten years, the effective reduction of NO_x in exhaust gases from diesel and lean-burn engines has become one of the greatest challenges in the fields of global environmental protection and catalysis.

十几年来，稀燃发动机和柴油发动机尾气中NO x的有效消除已成为世界环保催化领域难以解决的课题。

A few years ago, the story Roberts seemed to be selling was that Comcast was transforming itself into a content company, or that it would lean more heavily in that direction.

多年前，罗伯茨给外界留下的印象似乎是，康卡斯特正在向内容公司转变，或者会加大向这方面的倾斜。

Recent events lean me more towards favoring longer years of imprisonment.

最近发生的事件更使我倾向于延长罪犯关押年限的意见.

You'll have two very lean years.

你要过两年节衣缩食的日子.