meager
meager — 形容詞
- meagerpositive
- meagerercomparative
- meagerestsuperlative
1. Describes an amount, size, or quality that falls short of what is needed.
微薄；貧乏
量少質差，不足以滿足需求
Describes an amount, size, or quality that falls short of what is needed.
The family's meager savings could not cover even one month's rent.
這家人的微薄積蓄甚至不夠支付一個月的房租。
After months of dry weather, the farm's meager harvest of corn worried the whole village.
經過數月的乾旱天氣，農場微薄的玉米收成讓全村人擔憂。
meager + harvest/crop (amount collocation)
Mira's meager salary as a trainee barely paid for her bus fare.
Mira 當實習生的微薄薪水幾乎只夠付她的公車費。
The report offered only meager evidence to back up its surprising claims.
這份報告只提供了微薄的證據來支持其令人驚訝的主張。
Daichi found the soup's meager flavour disappointing after the long wait.
漫長等待後，Daichi 覺得這碗湯的風味貧乏，令人失望。
- scant
more formal; used almost always about amounts, not quality
- sparse
thinly distributed or scattered; not about strength or richness
- insufficient
more formal and absolute; often used in official contexts
- paltry
implies contempt or scorn; stronger negative judgment than 'meager'
- ample
more than enough in size or amount
- abundant
plentiful; present in large quantities
- substantial
large in amount or importance
用法筆記
Frequently used with nouns of quantity or quality (salary, resources, evidence, harvest). The British spelling is 'meagre'.