Profits are meagre, convenience is king, discounters are rife.

利润微薄、便利至上、折扣商店盛行。

Yet such services are often meagre.

但这类服务还不完善。

For most desert dwellers, life revolves around the meagre rains.

对大多数沙漠居民来说，贫乏的雨水便是生活所有的期盼。

Data collection is meagre and infrequent.

因为这些数据收集得很少，开展频率也很低。

Our individual failings are submerged; we become greater than the sum of our meagre parts.

我们个人的缺点被淹没了；我们变得比我们贫乏部分的总和更强大。

The SPD has paid dearly there, winning a meagre 12% of the vote in September.

社民党在图林根州付出了高昂的代价，却仅仅在9月的选举中获得了微薄的12%的选票。

He even saved a large sum of money from his meagre income to finance her marriage.

他甚至从微薄的收入中存了一大笔钱来给孩子结婚用。

Help is needed not just for them, but for host communities who share their meagre resources.

需要帮助的不仅是他们，还有那些接待他们并分享微薄资源的社区。

The heavy rains threatened North Korea's already meagre food supply.

暴雨致使朝鲜本已微薄的粮食供应雪上加霜。

She may have walked miles just for that mouse...and such meagre pickings won't sustain a wolf.

它也许奔走了几英里只是为了抓一只老鼠，如此微薄的回报不足以支撑它的生存。