pittance

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.

Brothel owners take the lion's share of the profits, with many workers paid a pittance.

妓院老板获得超高利润，而妓女们却收入颇微。

the few jobs now being created too often pay a pittance, not nearly enough to pry open the doors to a middle-class standard of living.

当前创造的就业机会也只是杯水车薪，还远远无法达到中产阶级的生活水准。

The Communists seized all private property, and employers provided workers with subsidized housing a pittance.

共产党掌握着所有个人财产, 企业向员工提供补贴住房,员工只需缴纳微薄的费用.

The widow must live on her slender pittance.

那寡妇只能靠自己微薄的收入过活.

She raised three children on a pittance.

她靠微薄的收入抚养三个孩子。

Her secretaries work tirelessly for a pittance.

她的秘书们为一点微薄的工资不知疲倦地工作。

According to Prof Mathews, these illegal workers carry the economy of Chungking Mansions as they are willing to work for a pittance.

麦登高表示，这些非法劳工撑起了重庆大厦的经济，他们愿以微薄的薪水干活。

Neither set of lenders was paid more than a pittance.

所有的债权人谁都不比谁多得到一个子儿.

to work for a pittance

为一点小钱而工作

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.

80岁之后，他们在法律上就被认定为死亡；子孙们将立即继承他们的财产，仅会保留一小部分钱用作他们的赡养费。

He only received a miserly, beggarly, begrudging pittance.

他只得到一份少得可怜的微薄津贴。

they might be well-to-do, but their finances were a pittance in comparison with the culhances'.

他们会富裕的，但是与卡亨斯家族相比，他们的钱财是很微薄的。

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.

the shrewd hutt kept barada forever in his debt by paying him a pittance yet charging him room and board.

精明的赫特人给他住处和食物，但只支付微薄的工资，让他永远债台高筑。

They work all day for a mere pittance.

他们为了一点微薄的收入而整日工作.

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

12[和合]你17卖了你的子民, 也不赚利;所得的价值,并不加添你的资财.

to pay sb a pittance

付给某人菲薄的工资

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.