Oh, that soul was itself meagre, ghastly, and famished; and cruelty was the delight of that soul!

哦，这灵魂本身是可怕饥瘦；残忍也是那灵魂的乐趣！

Mr Cui, a retired soldier , was unable to find work in his native province and eked out a meagre living by baking sausages .

崔英杰是一位退伍军人，他无法在家乡找到工作，靠出售烤香肠勉强维持着贫苦的生活。

Even if the recovery can be sustained this year, GDP growth is likely to be a meagre 1% or so.

即使今年能够继续复苏，GDP的增长可能是微乎其微的1%。

In the course of time the crowd thinned out to a meagre handful.

过了一段时间，围观的人群渐渐散去，只剩下寥寥几个人。

Sharp falls in the price of oil and other commodities slowed price rises to a meagre 1% from a year earlier, compared with 1. 9% in October.

随着石油和其他大宗商品价格的大幅下降，商品的同比价格上涨幅度仅为不到1%，而10月份上涨幅度还在1.

Such meagre income shall not be able to support a spacious work space downtown.

这样微薄的利润将不足以维持一个位于市中心的工作站。

She grabbed meagre meals when she had a free moment . But Luyuan felt liberated from the rigid and demanding schedule of industry .

有空的时候，就草草扒拉几口饭。但李芦媛却感觉从工厂僵化、繁重的日程中解脱了出来。

a month and his meagre salary is not enough to pay for the education she wants to give her children.

34美金），他可怜巴巴的收入不足以支付妻子想要给孩子所受的教育。

That compares with a meagre doubling in the price of copper this year and a 77% increase in the Shanghai stockmarket.

与此相比，上涨不过一倍的期货铜，以及上升约77%的上海股市简直微不足道。

In 1990, before economic reforms began to work, it accounted for a meagre 3 per cent of global manufacturing.

在1990年之前，经济改革起效之前，全球制造业中，中国仅占了微薄的3%。

Justin Brown is an abbot at a Benedictine abbey that supplements its meagre income by making and selling simple wooden coffins.

贾斯丁·布朗是一个本笃会修道院的一名院长，通过制作、出售简单的木质棺材来增加微薄的收入。