查询词典 pittance

He points out that India's rickshaw-pullers earn only a pittance after paying the rent on their vehicles.

他说，这些车夫的收入减去租金后少得可怜，这让他萌生了一个念头。

Neither set of lenders was paid more than a pittance.

所有的债权人谁都不比谁多得到一个子儿。

But by then it was too late, the contracts were signed and he was being paid a pittance to be attacked by South African cops.

但是到那时候就太晚了，合同已经签了，而且他也得到了微簿的工资，也被南非的警察袭击过了。

February's stimulus package provided about $48 billion for transport, a pittance in comparison.

自上世纪50年代以来，美国政府最具影响力的交通运输政策将于今年夏天走下历史舞台。

I am going to take all who desire to be taken into spheres of knowing that will transcend the pittance of your senses.

我会带上所有渴望真知的人，进入那完全超越你们狭小感觉范围的界域。

The $20 billion-plus of cashequivalent assets that we customarily hold is earning a pittance at present.

目前我们照例持有的相当于 200 多亿美元现金的资产带来的收益很少。

At Berkshire, wanting our fees to be meaningless to our directors, we pay them only a pittance. Additionally, not wanting to insulate our directors from any corporate disaster we might have, we don't provide them with officers' and directors' liability insurance (an unorthodoxy that, not so incidentally, has saved our shareholders many millions of dollars over the years). Basically, we want the behavior of our directors to be driven by the effect their decisions will have on their family'snet worth, not by their compensation. That's the equation for Charlie and me as managers, and we think it's the right one for Berkshire directors as well.

在伯克希尔，为了避免董事报酬占其个人收入的比例太高，我们仅象征性地支付一点报酬，此外为了不让董事们规避公司发生重大经营意外的风险，我们也不提供董事经理人责任保险(虽然这在一般公司并非常态，但每年却也为公司节省了好几百万美元的保险费用)，基本上，我们希望董事们的行为想法跟在处理自家财务一般小心谨慎，而不只是着眼于董事报酬，这跟查理与我本人在身为伯克希尔经营者的心态一致，我们这样的做法同样也适用于伯克希尔的董事们。

If regulators believe that "significant" money taints independence, they have overlooked a massive class of possible offenders. At Berkshire, wanting our fees to be meaningless to our directors, we pay them only a pittance. Additionally, not wanting to insulate our directors from any corporate disaster we might have, we don't provide them with officers' and directors' liability insurance (an unorthodoxy that, not so incidentally, has saved our shareholders many millions of dollars over the years).

Any change we make in the composition of our board will not alter the way Charlie and I run 的，一位收入普通相当依赖董事酬劳，而且亟欲受邀担任其它公司董事以获取更多董事报酬的人，他很有可能不敢斗胆冒犯 CEO 或其它董事成员，因为后者对于前者在公司业界的名声有相当大的影响力，而如果管理当局相信高额金钱会影响到独立性，那么他们很有可能错过了一大群真正敢发出声音的人。

Although the strangers numbered merely six hundred men, a pittance compared with the hundreds of thousands of warriors available to Moctezuma, the fatalistic emperor sat in his palace in the magnificent Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, brooding over the possibly imminent loss of his wealth and power.

虽然那些外来者只有区区600人，和moctezuma手下成千上万的武士比起来微不足道，但是相信宿命论的国王moctezuma坐在aztec华丽的首都tenochtitlan中，思考着他可能就要失去的财富和权利。

What an honor the LORD bestows upon us when He condescends to borrow of us! That merchant is greatly favored who has the LORD on his books. It would seem a pity to have such a name down for a paltry pittance; let us make it a heavy amount. The next needy man that comes this way, let us help him.

这是何等恩宠，上帝竟愿屈尊向我们借贷，那位商人的帐簿中，有上帝的名字在面，他是特别受到青睐，然而收支簿上只有一些些金额，那是何等可惜的事，让我们在上帝的名下累进金额，也就是，马上大方地帮助下一位有需要的人。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失