Copying gives me access to an infinitely richer and more varied menu of ideas than if I had to limit myself to my own meagre store.

比起我自己腹中那点可怜的存货，抄袭能让我接触到无限丰富和多样的想法。

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Just over half of the population lives on less than 120% of this meagre poverty line.

超过一半的人口生活在这条本来钱就很少的贫困线的120%以下。

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But so far a meagre $300m in aid has been pledged and it is likely that poor countries may have to take most of the burden themselves.

但到目前为止，仅仅筹集到了3亿美元的援助，这样看来贫穷国家只能自己承担大部分负担。

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He warns, though, that the meagre first-quarter growth result depended on heavy government stimulus measures.

但他警告说，第一季度微弱的经济增长来自于政府的大力经济刺激措施。

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And yet what is true is that Mr Obama’s stress on a foreign policy of engagement and "reaching out" has delivered fairly meagre results.

但一个不争的事实是，奥巴马所强调的接触与“伸出手”的外交政策收效甚微。

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But opportunities in heavily regulated financial and professional service sectors, including law and accounting, remain meagre .

但在受到严密监管的金融、及法律和会计等专业服务领域，机会依然很少。

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But it is a meagre sandbag against the rising waters of unemployment.

但这对不断增加的失业人数来说，只是杯水车薪。

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The Legal Aid Council does not receive its meagre budget on time.

而法律援助委员会连这些少之又少的资金预算也无法按时收到。

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This seems a meagre return for over six years of negotiations.

付出了长达6年多的谈判，这么点回报似乎太少。

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Experimental studies on the explosion intensity of meagre -lean coal for BF injection

高炉喷吹用贫瘦煤爆炸强度的实验研究

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Advertisements for PCs already tout their meagre energy consumption just as prominently as their number-crunching prowess.

个人电脑广告已经开始像兜售其超级运算能力一样推销其低能耗的性能。

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Demand for petrol, crucial to a car-dependent US, has gained a meagre 0. 5 per cent year to date, according to energy department data.

根据美国能源部数据，今年以来，美国汽油需求——汽油在大部分人都以汽车代步的美国具有重要地位——仅微增0.

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Salaries are often so meagre and paid so late that charities working in prisons sometimes offer food and soap to warders as well as inmates.

工资如此之低，其发放也是一拖再拖，以至于活动于各个监狱的慈善团体有时还要给囚犯甚至典狱长发配食物与肥皂。

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With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.

关于奢侈品和舒适品，聪明人往往过着比贫困者更为简单和朴素的生活。

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State infrastructure investment is also a meagre 1. 5 per cent, compared with 12 per cent in China.

国家基础设施投资也仅为微不足道的1.5%，远远低于中国的12%。

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In the past the Agriculture Department (USDA) has placed relatively meagre limits on this expansion. This month, however, that may change.

过去，美国农业部对转基因作物种植面积的扩张限制不多，但从这个月开始，情况可能就要发生变化了。

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low prices and meagre earnings abroad;

海外售价太低、利润微薄；

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The answer is that they don’t lose all that often, despite a meagre tally of one World Cup, 43 years ago, and no European championships.

回答：英格兰其实也没有那么经常输啦，虽然只有在43年前得到了一尊世界杯，而从未“染指”欧洲冠军。

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Meagre returns have not helped.

基金微薄的回报也帮不上什么忙。

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Even if the meagre synergies achieved doubled overnight, they would enhance group earnings by just 2-4 per cent.

即便合并取得的弱小的协同优势在一夜之间扩大一倍，它们也仅会将集团收益提高2%至4%。

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Even if the recovery can be sustained this year, GDP growth is likely to be a meagre 1% or so.

即使今年能够继续复苏，GDP的增长可能是微乎其微的1%。

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A 20 per cent, appreciation would provide a meagre 3 per cent devaluation of the trade-weighted dollar.

即使人民币升值20%，也只能使美元贸易加权汇率下降区区3%。

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Even large towns must make do with meagre dispensaries and most lack doctors.

即使在大城市里，防治所装备差，缺乏医生。

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Justin Brown is an abbot at a Benedictine abbey that supplements its meagre income by making and selling simple wooden coffins.

贾斯丁·布朗是一个本笃会修道院的一名院长，通过制作、出售简单的木质棺材来增加微薄的收入。

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Although they provide about 70% of jobs in Japan, they have meagre profits from which to fund wage increases (see chart 3).

尽管这些小企业提供了日本70%就业机会，但其微薄的利润却为工资增长做贡献。

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According to Barclays Capital, the annualised real return since the start of 2003 has been a meagre 1%.

据巴克莱资本的计算，自2003年以来，其年化真实回报率仅为1%。

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Laura Ling told her family she was treated humanely, but meals were meagre and her phone calls were monitored.

凌志美告诉家人说她受到了很人性化的对待，但她的伙食不够，而且有人监听她的电话。

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Retail sales showed meagre growth last month as cash-strapped consumers cut back spending despite summer sale discounts.

零售业数据显示上个月的微薄增长是因为资金短缺的消费者无视夏季大减价依然消减开支。

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Sales of roses were a blooming EURO802m ($1. 2 billion), although that is a meagre increase of 0. 9% from 2007.

玫瑰商的销售额高达8.02亿欧元（12亿美元），比2007年略长了0.

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Right now my salary might be meagre , but by dating me, you are investing to the future while I’m still cheap.

目前我的薪水有点微博，但是跟俺约会就是在投资未来哈，俺现在是潜力股还很便宜的哟。

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