音标与读法

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音标：[ "pitəns ]

中英文翻译

n.

少量食物；少量收入〔主要用于 a mere pittance〕。

an inadequate payment; "they work all day for a mere pittance"

Pittance (through French pitance and from Latin pietas, loving kindness) is a gift to the members of a religious house for masses, consisting usually of an extra allowance of food or wine on occasions such as the anniversary of the donor"s death festivals and other similar occasions. The word was early transferred to a charitable donation and to any small gift of food or money.

例句与用法

1.The widow must live on her slender pittance .

那寡妇只能靠自己微薄的收入过活。

2.What i " m asking for is a pittance

而我要的与一个失败的诉讼所带来的负面效应相比

3.The peasant laboured for a mere pittance

农民仅仅是为了微不足道的收入而辛苦地劳作。

4.Do you have any additional plans for this pittance

你已经计划好了怎么花“这一点点钱”么？

5.Yes , my dear , and it is a mere pittance of my vast estate ,

是的，亲爱的，它是我的巨大的财富里很小的一块

6.He lives on a mere pittance

他靠微薄的收入生活。

7.You sold your people for a pittance , gaining nothing from their sale

12你卖了你的子民也不赚利，所得的价值并不加添你的资财。

8.Over its first three months the game signed up fewer than 50 , 000 subscribers , a pittance , so in june warner cut bait and agreed to sell the game to sony

游戏头3个月的注册人数少于5万人，非常少，所以6月份华纳决定将游戏售予索尼。

9.Rodrigo , an engineer in a small town in central cuba surrounded by cane fields , says there is no point in practising his profession for a pittance

罗德里格是一位居住在古巴中部一个四处是甘蔗地的小镇上的工程师，他讲道，他从事着自己职业获取那么一丁点薪俸没有任何意义。

10.If to this long list you add the laboring women who are loudly demanding remuneration for their unending toil ; those women who teach in our seminaries , academies , and public schools for a miserable pittance ; the widows who are taxed without mercy ; the unfortunate ones in our workhouses , poor - houses , and prisons ; who are they that we do not now represent

我们不能代表的只不过是一些时髦的轻浮女子，她们像蝴蝶一样，在短暂的夏日里，追逐阳光和花朵，但是秋季的凉风和冬天的白霜很快便会驱走阳光和花朵，那时，她们也将需要、也将寻求保护。

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