The bank's staff were already angered by a meagre 3.1% pay rise.银行职员对只加薪3.1%已心生怒火。a meagre diet of bread and water只有面包和水的粗茶淡饭The diet should be suitable, being neither too rich nor too meagre.膳食应该适当, 即不能太油腻也不能太粗淡....
Small meteorites have left impact craters all over the planet's surface.这个行星的表面布满了小块陨石留下的撞击坑.One theory about the existence of extraterrestrial life rests on the presence of carbon compounds in meteorites.地球外存在生命的理论...
他被派到公司的开罗分部.He was assigned to the company's branch in Cairo.一份由联邦储备银行的费城分部汇编的报告说经济不景气。A report compiled by the Fed's Philadelphia branch described the economy as weak.我们的海外分部设在巴哈马群岛。Our overseas subsection is ...
幼虫变为蝶蛹,再变成蝴蝶.A larva metamorphoses into a chrysalis and then into a butterfly.蛹期—黑燕尾蝶冬天时变身蝶蛹,气候回暖时破茧而出,变成蝴蝶.Pupa – Black swallowtails spend winter as chrysalids, emerging as butterflies when warm weather returns....