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Will any of these measures help to lift France's growth rate from its recent meagre average of 2% a year?

所有这些措施有助于法国提高当前可怜的每年2%的经济增长率吗？

"Pensioners have no voice and are left to survive on a meagre allowance each week that most people would never manage on, " he said.

「退休老人没有声音，被迫每周靠著微薄的退休金维生，多数人光靠这点钱绝对没办法生活，」他说。

She said: 'The meagre revenue by government should be directed towards critical needs like health, antiretroviral drugs and education.

她表示：“政府收入原本就少得可怜，应该用到那些有迫切需要的地方，比如卫生、抗逆转录病毒药物以及教育等方面。”

Copying gives me access to an infinitely richer and more varied menu of ideas than if I had to limit myself to my own meagre store.

比起我自己腹中那点可怜的存货，抄袭能让我接触到无限丰富和多样的想法。

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。

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！

I wonder, therefore, whether it was worthwhile to risk a selective default for such a meagre debt reduction effort?

因此，我很怀疑，为了这种力度欠佳的减债方案而承担选择性违约的风险是否值得。

"When you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind. "

“当你不能度量自己所言、不能用数字将它表达出来时，你的了解就是贫乏的，不能令人满意。”

The EU's military capability is meagre; its ability to stand up to Russian divide-and-rule tactics in energy security is feeble.

欧盟的军事实力不强；与俄罗斯在能源安全方面分而治之的策略也是很薄弱的。

He was professor of physics in the high school, possessor of a large family, a meagre salary, and a select fund of parrot-learned knowledge.

他是中学的物理老师，养着一大家人，薪水微薄，有一肚子精挑细选的人云亦云的知识。

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。

Advertisements for PCs already tout their meagre energy consumption just as prominently as their number-crunching prowess.

个人电脑广告已经开始像兜售其超级运算能力一样推销其低能耗的性能。

Given that these are so meagre, this might seem to be an unpromising line of inquiry.

既然他们是那么的贫困，看起来这似乎是一个没有好结果的调查。

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 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%。

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.

No one much complains about the minimum wage today; it has improved the meagre lot of hundreds of thousands of low-paid workers.

如今，对于最低工资没有人有太多的抱怨。它已经改善了成千上万名工人微波的收入。

From St. Mark, whose account of the Precursor's life is very meagre , no new detail can be gathered.

在马可来看，这位先驱者的生命是非常贫弱的，没有新的细节可以收集。