But even field-based data collection, which costs a pittance by comparison, struggles to achieve financial security.

但即使是基于现场的数据收集，相比之下成本微不足道，也难以实现财务安全。

This being Soviet Russia, that meant doing backbreaking work for a pittance while wallowing in poverty.

这是在苏联，意味着他们生活在贫困之中，为微薄的收入做着繁重的工作。

None observed that the uninviting pittance set aside for his midday repast, remained for several days untouched.

甚至没有谁注意到他那微薄的薪水连吃午餐都不够，一连好几天他都不吃午餐。

Though not small, the cost also looks like a pittance compared with many ideas to alleviate intergenerational poverty.

尽管成本不小，但与许多缓解代际贫困的想法相比，成本似乎也微乎其微。

Democrats today called that amount a pittance.

今天的民主党人称这一数额微不足道。

Oh, so you're working as somebody's lackey and getting paid a pittance.

乔纳斯：哦，所以你在当某人的走狗并且得到微薄的报酬。

Jonas says, " Oh, so you're working as somebody's lackey and getting paid a pittance."

乔纳斯说，“哦，所以你是在做某人的走狗并且得到微薄的报酬。

A pittance left to her now, at the eleventh hour?

现在，在最后一刻留给她的是微不足道的？

You have bartered it for a pittance of the public gold.

你用它换取了微不足道的公共黄金。

" To get paid a pittance" (pittance) is to receive a very small amount of money.

“to get paid a pittance”（微薄）是指得到极少量的钱。