英:[ˈmiːgə]
美:[ˈmigər]
英:[ˈmiːgə]
美:[ˈmigər]
adj.
瘦的
粗劣的
不足的
贫乏的
mea·ger
mi gr
meagerly (adv.), meagerness (n.)
词根:meager
adv.meagerly 瘦地;贫乏地
n.meagerness 贫乏;枯瘦
adjective
low in quantity, extent, strength, or richness; scanty or feeble.With meager funds, the project had to be stopped.The poor subsist on a meager diet consisting mainly of rice.
having little weight or flesh; thin or scrawny.The child's meager body was near starvation.
meager profit微利
14世纪晚期, megre(12世纪晚期作为姓氏),指“瘦削的,消瘦的”(指人或动物),源自古法语 megre, maigre “瘦弱的”(12世纪),源自拉丁语 macrum(主格 macer)“瘦削的,消瘦的”(西班牙语、葡萄牙语和意大利语 magro 的来源),源自 PIE 词根 *mak- “长,瘦”。比较 emaciate。
早在15世纪初,物质事物(土地、食物等)也用此词。同源的日耳曼语词汇(古诺尔斯语 magr “瘦”,古高地德语 magar,德语 mager,中古荷兰语 magher,荷兰语 mager,古英语 mæger)直接来自 PIE 词根,通过原始日耳曼语 *magras,而非拉丁语。
Middle English megre "thin, having little flesh from lack of food," borrowed from Anglo-French megre, maigre, going back to Latin macr-, macer "thin, lean, of little substance," going back to Indo-European *mh2ḱ-ro- "long, thin," whence also Germanic *magra- "lean" (whence Old English mæger "lean," Old High German magar, Old Norse magr), Greek makrós "long, tall, high, large"; derivative in *-ro-, adjective suffix, of a base *meh2ḱ-, *mh2ḱ- seen also in Latin maciēs "bodily thinness, wasting," Greek mêkos "length," mḗkistos "longest, highest," Avestan masah- "length, greatness," masišta- "highest," Hittite maklant- "thin, slim (of animals)" Note: Alternatively from Indo-European *maḱ- if a is accepted as a vowel, as the laryngeal h2 is invoked solely to produce the right vocalism.
The first known use of meager was in the 14th century
mealwormnoun
any of various small brownish larvae of various beetles that live in grain products and are often raised as food for insect-eating animals or as bait
mealtimenoun
the usual time at which a meal is served
meal1 of 2noun
the food eaten or prepared for eating at one time
the act or time of eating a meal
meal2 of 2noun
ground seeds of a cereal grassespecially: cornmeal
something like meal especially in texture
meal1 of 2noun
the food eaten or prepared for eating at one time
the act or time of eating a meal
meal2 of 2noun
ground seeds of a cereal grassespecially: cornmeal
something like meal especially in texture
meageradjective
having little flesh : thin
lacking desirable qualities (as richness or strength)
led a meager life
deficient in quality or quantity
a meager serving of meat
meageradjective
having little flesh : thin
lacking desirable qualities (as richness or strength)
led a meager life
deficient in quality or quantity
a meager serving of meat
1 Toby could have his and Cady’s meager possessions packed and be out the door in no time, and then Cady would be safe.
2 It did not take long to organize my meager possessions.
3 He spotted Nhamo and trotted up, fur bristling, to demand the meager bunch of blackjack leaves.
4 And if they ever carry out this terrible threat, the meager handful of Jews still left in Holland will have to go.
5 Grandma and grandpa passed away the meager heritage and left me.
爷爷奶奶先后去世,把微薄的遗产留给了我.
6 He got out his tobacco sack with its meager jin- gle of silver and bought the men a drink to keep them talking.
7 The following day they pawned some of Granny’s meager belongings.
8 I whipped around my house, checking on my meager possessions.
9 One of the consequences of his decampment into the world of fantasy was leaving his meager group of friends—mostly from church—behind.
10 When the woman saw Seth, she dropped the rope immediately, wiping pink saliva from the corners of her meager lips.
11 Evidence on the toxic range of magnesium in the leaves is very meager.
叶片镁含量毒害范围的资料还非常欠缺.
12 After school he had worked in a factory, but the wages were too meager for him to live on his own.
13 He was already signed up for tesserae, which entitled them to a meager supply of grain and oil in exchange for his entering his name extra times in the drawing to become a tribute.
14 A3: Because of long voyages and meager rations.
A 3:因为长期航行和有限的干粮。
15 One, two, three, four...Counting them over and over, as if that would replenish the empty water kegs and meager slabs of salted meat.
16 I certainly hope so; my meager budget can't stand much more of a diet.
17 The feast was a meager enough thing, a succession of fish stews, black bread, and spiceless goat.
18 She rests uneasily in the silence, watching ants boil darkly over the crumbs of what seemed, to begin with, an impossibly meager lunch.
19 I was already awake at 4:00 a.m. when the alarm on my wrist- watch began to beep; I’d been awake most of the night, struggling for breath in the meager air.
20 It was a poor house, a meager house with the look of having been quickly abandoned.
1 不充分
short incomplete inadequate insufficient imperfect deficient unsatisfactory ill unsatisfying scantily incompletely weakness insufficiency inadequacy
4 不足
low short inadequate insufficient scarce sparse scant stingy lacking exiguous scrimpy slack lack poverty defect deficiency scarcity dearth wanting want fail run low
6 枯燥乏味
unattractive insipid workaday drearisome jejunely insipidly stodginess insipidity insipidness jejuneness
8 瘦的
thin lean spare skinny angular peaked rawboned bony meagre lank slab-sided mawger gaunt hidebound fatless
9 贫乏
poor lean spare miserable tenuous pinched scanty Lenten poorly scantily sparely meanly beggarliness exiguity sterility smallness aridity spareness tenuity meagerness exility in bad circumstances lack for sparse indigent niggardly necessitous indigence out at elbows weak narrow barren arid scant poverty-stricken washy sparing scraggy exiguous jejune barely wasteland paucity sterilize
11 贫乏的
poor lean spare miserable tenuous pinched scanty Lenten sparse indigent niggardly necessitous weak narrow barren scant poverty-stricken washy sparing scraggy exiguous jejune
13 枯燥
dull pedestrian bald dreary corny meagre prosaism aridity insipidity prosaicism dead-alive drab insipid stodgy drack
14 思想贫乏的
15 不充分的
short incomplete inadequate insufficient imperfect deficient unsatisfactory ill unsatisfying
18 不毛的
waste lean desert harsh hungry sour stark sterile barren unproductive infertile meagre unfruitful infecund infructuous
19 瘦
thin lean spare skinny thinly leanness angular peaked rawboned poor bony meagre lank slab-sided macerate mawger gaunt hidebound fatless
20 枯燥乏味的
21 不毛
waste lean desert harsh hungry sour stark sterile barren unproductive infertile meagre unfruitful infecund infructuous poverty sterilization sterility poorness
22 素的
25 不充足的
26 无力
dead empty invalid vain limp powerless feeble impotent languid washy inefficacious inability impotence asthenia inanition incapacitate cut the claws of
28 皮包骨