pittance

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。

Fund managers, who allocated a pittance to commodities a few years ago, now put up to 5% of their cash into them.

几年前，基金经理将很小一部分资金用于商品（投机）领域，如今已经增加到5%了。

At the moment mainland residents can legally move only a pittance abroad in any given year.

目前，中国大陆的居民每年通过合法的方式只能够转移少量的资金到海外。

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。

But together they owned a mere 1. 2 percent of the company, a pittance given the size of those investment companies.

但是这两家合计仅拥有其1.2%的股份，考虑到这两家投资公司的规模，这点持有量实在少得多可怜。

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。

Although many of the poorest now get some kind of government support, it is only a pittance.

虽然现在许多最贫穷的人得到政府的一些帮助，但是那仅仅是小小的施舍。

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。

The pittance your father used to pay me as rent won't even keep me in tea.

当年你爸爸给我的那点租钱，还不够我喝茶用的呢。

So $50, 000 might be a fortune in a small town, but a mere pittance in a big city.

所以，50,000美元可能在一个小镇是一笔财富，但是在大城市仅仅是微薄的报酬。

The abundant supply of migrants willing to work for a pittance is slowing.

愿意为微薄薪水工作的农民工的充沛供应正在放缓。

Some evicted civilians were then forced back by soldiers to mine the diamonds for a pittance.

一些被驱逐的本地人后来又被士兵强迫回来以微薄的工资开采钻矿。

Eg. The widow must live on her slender pittance.

那寡妇只能靠自己微薄的收入过活。

The Communists seized all private property, and employers provided workers with subsidized housing, the rent 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。

You'll lose everything. Family, place. For what? A lifetime of dudgery on a pittance? A child every year and no means to lighten the load?

你会失去一切的。家庭、地位、为了什么？辛辛苦苦一辈子？孩子一个个多起来，肩上永远扛着担子？

On the pittance you pay me, I've only got a few things.

以你付给我的那点微薄收入我只能买几件而已

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。

There is nothing for free people, the Chinese are opening their fat cheque books and pay a pittance for Africa's resources.

没有什么是免费的，中国人拿走非洲的资源，然后打开厚厚的支票本，可怜巴巴的给一点。

While a $57, 000 tax-free check is no pittance, it is important to put that figure in perspective.

然而，一项免税的5.7万美元的支票并不低，正确地看待这一数字非常重要。

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？