- 1微薄的、少得可憐
If an amount of food, money, proof, or pay is meagre, it is too small — much less than a person needs. It is not merely “a little.” It carries a sad or critical feel: this is not enough to live on, not enough to do the job. A meagre meal might be a little rice and nothing else. A meagre salary is one you can barely get through the month on. A meagre piece of evidence is too thin to convince anyone. The word is a little formal and a little ; news, school essays, and novels like it. In American spelling you will usually see meager, same meaning; British and many Taiwan textbooks keep meagre. People do not often use it for a tiny object they do not care about (a small stone is not meagre). They use it when something important is short.
組成From Middle French maigre, from Latin macer, macrum (“lean, thin”). Dutch mager and German mager (“lean”) are cousins from the same older root.
同家族的字
- meagrelythe adverb: in a too-small way
- meagrenessthe noun: the state of being too small
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
meagrenoun詞源 1/ˈmiːɡəɹ/
- 1
An edible fish, of species Argyrosomus regius, of the family Sciaenidae, found from the Black Sea to the eastern Atlantic.
- 1986, A. Wysokiński, The Living Marine Resources of the Southeast Atlantic, FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 178, page 48, Among more valuable species some of them are worth mentioning, especially littoral forms as: meagres and other croakers (Sciaenidae), grunters (Pomadasyidae), threadfins (Polynemidae), groupers (Serranidae), snappers (Lutjanidae) […] .
- It is striking that these represent meagres (Argyrosomus regius), a species never mentioned in classical texts.
meagreadj詞源 2/ˈmiːɡəɹ/
- 1
Having little flesh; lean; thin.
- […]meagre were his looks; / Sharp misery had worn him to the bones:
- 2
Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
- Nothing will grow in this meagre soil.
- He was given a meagre piece of cake that he swallowed in one bite.
- 3
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).
meagreverb詞源 2/ˈmiːɡəɹ/
- 1
To make lean.
- I am meagred to a skeleton; my nose is broiled to flaming heat, and I am suffering the greatest inconvenience from the loss of my baggage which I fear the enemy have taken with my servant at Konigsberg.
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