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I've given it up for a job with a measly salary but one that's interesting and personally satisfying and - guess what - I've never been happier in my life.

我放弃了，为了另一份收入微薄的工作，但新工作很有趣，我个人对此很满意，你猜怎么着？我从未比现在更快乐过。

I don't want to work for minimum wage.

我可不想为拿这么微薄的工资而工作。

It is hard for him to live on his small pension.

靠微薄的养老金生活，对他来说非常不容易。

He'll be happy to get a paltry bonus.

他会很高兴地接受一份微薄的奖金。

I suspect paltry pay was a big factor too.

不过，我猜太过微薄的薪水也是一大理由吧。

Wandering with his bowl in hand — not dumb, but seemingly dumb — he shouldn't despise a piddling gift nor disparage the giver.

他手持钵盂游行；他不是哑巴，但象哑巴；他不应该嫌弃微薄的施舍，不应该轻视施舍者。

I'm just a poorly paid teacher.

我只是个收入微薄的教师。

No team in the league is more averse to spending money than the Grizzlies, who have agonized all season about whether they could afford to keep Quinton Ross and his modest $926,678 salary on the roster for all 82 games.

联盟中没有球队比灰熊更不情愿花钱了。是否用微薄的92万6678美元薪水把昆汀-罗斯留在大名单就已经困恼灰熊制服组整个赛季了。

As long as you can let us cooperate with you and allow us to make a razor-thin profit,we would like to pay any price for this.

留学解答资讯网：只要能和你合作并有一点微薄的利润，我们将不惜任何代价。

In these recessionary times, absenteeism can make already slim profits disappear.

在这些经济衰退时期，缺勤可以使已经非常微薄的利润消失。

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