微薄的

Oil companies claim their margins on the forecourt are wafer thin and that the bulk of their profits are made elsewhere.

石油公司声称它们从汽车加油站获取的利润是非常微薄的，其它业务才是绝大部分利润的来源。

We barely existed on father's meagre wages and mother's struggling income.

我们就靠着父亲那点微薄的工资和母亲辛勤劳作而的得来的收入维持生活。

The pilot, even in those days of trivial wages, had a princely salary ... and no board to pay.

即便在当时那种工资微薄的年代，领航员的薪金也是特别高的一每月从150元到250元，还不花伙食钱。

Its text is meager and its principal value lies in the enormous variety of objects of which there are approximately 2,000 portrayed upon the plates...

它的文字是微薄的，其主要价值在于，其中有近2，000名经板描绘的对象种类繁多。。。

From the scanty remains of this work we can form but a very imperfect idea of it.

仍然从微薄的这项工作，但我们可以形成一个非常完美的想法的。

Their cost is very tall, income is very scanty.

他们的成本是很高的，收入是很微薄的。

Her father was laid off last year and her mother makes a modest income as a seamstress.

她的父亲去年失业，做裁缝的母亲也只是拥有一份微薄的收入。

We are too far away, the distance in the busy work every day, only the slender income.

呵呵，我们的距离真是太远了，天天都在忙碌的工作，只有微薄的收入。

Don't: Try to get the "most" for the "least" amount - which leads you to underpay exceptional contributors.

误：试图以最微薄的付出来得到最丰厚的回报，导致付给杰出贡献者过低的酬劳。

The ozone concentration in gas phase is determined by means of iodometric method.

气相臭氧浓度测定采用碘量法。下议院通过的那一点微薄的赐资根本无从解决他经济上的困难。

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