pittance

pittance什么意思,pittance翻译

基本解释

n.: 微薄的工资；极少的报酬
网络: 微薄的薪俸；微薄的收入；少量

权威解释

• 微薄的工资；极少的报酬:

  a very small amount of money that sb receives, for example as a wage, and that is hardly enough to live on

英汉解释

• 小额施舍

• 少量食物;少量收入

词性分析

• 复数：pittances

同义词

n.nothingsubsistence wagechicken feedsmall changepeanuts

反义词

n.fortune

例句

• 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。