pittance

英 [ˈpɪtns]

美 [ˈpɪtns]

n.  微薄的工资; 极少的报酬

复数：pittances　

GRE

BNC.19480 / COCA.22478

牛津词典

noun

• 微薄的工资；极少的报酬
  a very small amount of money that sb receives, for example as a wage, and that is hardly enough to live on
  1. to pay sb a pittance
     付给某人菲薄的工资
  2. to work for a pittance
     为一点小钱而工作

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 少量报酬；微薄工资
  If you say that you receive apittance, you are emphasizing that you get only a very small amount of money, probably not as much as you think you deserve.
  1. Her secretaries work tirelessly for a pittance.
     她的秘书们为一点微薄的工资不知疲倦地工作。

英英释义

noun

• an inadequate payment
  1. they work all day for a mere pittance

双语例句

• Qin: Now, young man, don't you think it's about time we raised the rent a bit? The pittance your father used to pay me as rent won't even pay my tea!
  秦仲义：小王，这儿的房租是不是得往上提那么一提呢？当年你爸爸给我的那点租钱，还不够我喝茶用的呢！
• 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。
• People, usually migrants from rural areas and jobless citizens, are hired to queue up for different types of tickets in large cities in return for a pittance, they are called hired queuers.
  代排族，指在大城市里被雇来替别人排队获取各类票证，然后从中获得报酬的那些人，从事这一行业的多为农民工或者无业人员。
• It is evident, therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to a very serious extent.
  所以很明显，如果两个女孩都结婚了，这好人就只剩下很少的薪俸了，而且其中一个就可能把他推到严重的境地。
• He only received a miserly, beggarly, begrudging pittance.
  他只得到一份少得可怜的微薄津贴。
• Sue gets paid an absolute pittance.
  休得到的报酬少得可怜。
• According to Prof Mathews, these illegal workers carry the economy of Chungking Mansions as they are willing to work for a pittance.
  麦登高表示，这些非法劳工撑起了重庆大厦的经济，他们愿以微薄的薪水干活。
• Without independent field, pittance of indium and germanium is mixed with lead, zinc and aluminum.
  由于铟、锗无独立的矿床，微量的铟、锗常和铅、锌、铝等元素共生。
• Nutritionists have demonstrated that an adequate diet can be maintained on a pittance.
  营养学家证明花钱不多也可以获得充足的营养。
• But those who have really transformed our society, by providing the knowledge that underpins the advances in technology, earn a relative pittance.
  但那些提供推动技术进步的知识、从而真正改变我们的社会的人，得到的报酬相对微薄。