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Very small in amount — not enough, in a way that feels disappointing. Used for a small quantity of food, money, or other resources, like "a meager salary", meaning a very small, barely-enough salary.
微薄的、不足的
組成From Latin "macer", meaning thin — the word first described something physically thin, and later came to mean "not enough" more generally.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
meageradj/ˈmiɡɚ/
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Having little flesh; lean; thin.
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Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
- A meager piece of cake in one bite.
- The street outside my window furnishes meager entertainment.
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mathematicssciencesset-theoryOf a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
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chemistrygeographygeologyDry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
meagerverb/ˈmiɡɚ/
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To make lean.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。