meagre

C2 FREQ #41070 ★☆☆☆☆

a. 瘦的, 不毛的, 贫乏的, 贫弱的, 少量的, 力量不够的, 质不高的, 量不足的

发音

US /ˈmiːɡɚ/

词形变化

meagres 复数 meagres meagred meagres 三单 meagring meagring 现在分词 meagred 过去式 meagred 过去分词 meagrer 比较级 meagrer meagrest meagrest 最高级

别名

meager

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An edible fish, of species Argyrosomus regius, of the family Sciaenidae, found from the Black Sea to the eastern Atlantic.

    大西洋白姑鱼

    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) […] .

v.
  1. 1.

    To make lean.

    加拿大 英国 及物
adj. C2
  1. 1.

    Having little flesh; lean; thin.

    加拿大 英国
  2. 2.

    Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent

    加拿大 英国

    Nothing will grow in this meagre soil.

    He was given a meagre piece of cake that he swallowed in one bite.

  3. 3.

    Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.

    加拿大 英国 数学
  4. 4.

    Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).

    加拿大 英国 化学 地质

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 3

stingy meager scrimpy

近义相关 9

spare miserable bare measly paltry exiguous hand-to-mouth hardscrabble scanty

参见 5

minimum scarce minimal insufficient deficient

相关短语

soup meagre soupe maigre

词源

From Middle French maigre.

来源：wiktionary