单词：pittance
考试类型：[GRE]
pittance的用法和样例：
例句
- We aren't talking a pittance here.这可不是一笔小数目。
- She could barely survive on the pittance she received as a widow's pension.她靠着极少的孤寡抚恤金仅够糊口.
- Lawrence fags away for a pittance.劳伦斯为了一点微薄的收入而辛苦地工作。
- The widow must live on her slender pittance.那寡妇只能靠自己微薄的收入过活。
词汇搭配
- a mere pittance微薄的报酬,一点点薪...
经典引文
He was granted a small pittance.
出自：E. H. Gombrich
- particle颗粒
- nothing没有什么
- subsistence wage维持最低生活水平的工资...
- chicken feed(俚语)小钱
- small change零钱
- peanuts花生
- trifle琐事
- small potatoes微不足道的人...
- mite小虫
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