微薄的报酬, 一点点薪金或津贴

a mere pittance的用法和样例:

例句

  1. I can't get by on such a small income.靠这么微薄的收入我无法过活。
  2. The widow must live on her slender pittance.那寡妇只能靠自己微薄的收入过活。

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学英语单词
a perfect ten
a posteriori
abnormal group
agave families
AkROLUTIN
backwater pump
Bellinl's ducts
big otter r.
boil the billy
bromine water
bucket type elevator
Cape plane
carbocoal tar
chronointerfometer
circuit construction
closed dies
come to Jesus
crude asbestos
cylindrical vacuum dryer
D-NRATIO
delect-
deliciated
dihydroxypropanone
double-action hammer
double-decker bus
dust basin
ehmp
ellsworth
engenderings
etiolated
factionalization
fashion massage
film tape
Fixed Rules
fona
foreign death taxes
fotograf
geetainer
gensym standard interface
ginglymodi
hawkey
haycarts
He answered almost all of my questions
hexagonal head tap bolt
hunt's-up
hysterostele
i/o rundown
ilyin
immersion optics
intelligent computer coaches
intrinsic stability
juried
knowledging
Kosovan
lever latch cap screw
marjata r.(kunga r.)
master data control console
metacontrast
microdistribution
milligram-element(radioactive)
money shipment
nonshrubby
not much of a hand at
out of sb's line
petrovietnam
pinky promises
powderflasks
powerdrive
preexist
promotion worker
punisheth
reference station
Rock L.
run untrue
scarcity principle
seasat (sea satellite)
ship's store
single phase A.C.
slip distribution
slop tank arrangement
sneak past
spring-like
statistical quality control movement
sun yellow g
superpetrosal
supersalient
tabular presentation
temperature monitoring
theatre club
thicketed
thin-film capacitor
three phase switch
topicality
tradition-oriented
tubuli seminiferi contorti
unintentional radar interference
Urticales
valve crash speed
vapour velocity
wha-wha mute
yu