He received a paltry annuity of $100.
他收到了微不足道的100美元年金。
This account offers a paltry 1% return on your investment.
这个账户给你投资的回报仅是微不足道的1%。
Ye paltry cowards, and arm yourselves and guard the doors, whilst I send one to fetch the watch!
你们这些没用的懦夫，武装起来，守住那些门，我派一个人去叫卫兵！
Oracle must chuckle every time an open-source operating system company reports its paltry profits or losses.
每当一家开源操作系统公司报告其微薄的利润或亏损时，甲骨文公司肯定会窃笑。
Only paltry sums are available for excavating and even less is available for publishing the results and preserving the sites once excavated.
只有很少的钱可以支持挖掘工作，而可以用来公布结果和保存曾经被挖掘的遗址的钱就更少了。
本次大选投票率仅为47.7%。
He'll be happy to get a paltry bonus.
他会很高兴地接受一份微薄的奖金。
I suspect paltry pay was a big factor too.
我怀疑罚款额太低也是一个原因。
Shareholders should lose their paltry remaining equity.
股东应减少他们所持股权。
The IIF expects that flows will dwindle to a paltry $165 billion this year.
国际金融协会(IIF)预计，今年私人资本的净流入将减少到区区1650以美金。
I am not even speaking here of that paltry eternity that is called posterity.
这里，我甚至没有谈到被称之为子孙后代的那种小小的永恒。
You are much mistaken if you expect to influence me by such a paltry attack as this.
你可转错了念头啦，你以为这样卑鄙地攻击人家一下，就影响了我对人家的看法吗？
Compared with its level of activity in the country, the bank's tax bill looks paltry.
看来与它在英国的盈利水平相比，税务账单就是小菜一碟了。
These paltry and essential belongings, these relative truths are the only ones to stir me.
这些细微却紧要的财产，这些与之关联的真实，才是唯一让我激动之物。
Worse is to come. The IIF expects that flows will dwindle to a paltry $165 billion this year.
更为严重的就来了，IIF预计今年将降至1 650美元。
The same may be true in America, where money-market funds are already offering paltry returns.
美国的情况也相类似。其金融市场基金的回报率已少得可怜。
In the past Dell used its extremely efficient supply chain, lack of sales staff, paltry inventory.
lack of sales staff，没有多余的销售员工paltry inventory极低的库存。
And all insist on that paltry eternity provided us cheaply by the hearts of those who loved us.
一切都在坚守那不足道的永恒，而那些曾经爱过我们的心正是这廉价的提供者。
Box.net's biggest drawback is its free account's filesize limit, which sits at a rather paltry 10mb.
net最大的缺点就是，免费用户的单个文件不能超过10MB。
Since it broke its last ceasefire, in 2007, it has killed ten; paltry, by the group's bloody standards.
自2007年撕毁停战协议以来，又造成7人丧生——按该组织血腥标准看，这是微不足道的。
They have no free time, health insurance, holidays or pension provision beyond the paltry state minimum.
除了微不足道的国家最低工资，她们没有自由时间、健康保险、节假日或退休金。
In 2003 only three of America's 20 biggest Banks were foreign-owned, with a paltry 2.2% share of deposits.
2003年，全美最大的20家银行中仅有3家为外国所有，其存款比重只占微不足道的2.2%。
Or maybe you just need more cooking oil this month, or a homemade soft drink you can afford on paltry wages.
或者这个月你可能仅需要食用油，或者你的微薄工资能买得起的家制软饮料。
But sometimes instead of selling theseitems for paltry amounts of cash, online users barter with each other.
但网上用户有时并不想为了小钱把东西简单卖掉，而是互相交换物品。
Resigning themselves to paltry (if any results), they sigh, “We tried it, but Social Media is just not for us.”
看到收获微小（如果有点结果的话）他们就辞职不干了，叹气道,“我们试过，但是社会媒体不适合我们。”
To poor countries, this sounds paltry: responses range from "bribery" to "it will not even pay for the coffins".
对穷国来说，这听起来太微薄了，故对此的反应从“贿赂”到“连买棺材都不够”不一而足。
Bigger funds, which have economies of scale, might be able to survive for another few years on these paltry pickings.
由于规模经济，较大的基金也许还能靠着微薄的利润再撑几年，但小基金不行。
If you see the paltry bonuses as part of a larger trend at your company, you could consider looking for a job elsewhere.
如果你认为微薄的奖金是你们公司整体趋势的一部分，你可以考虑跳槽。
If you see the paltry bonuses as part of a larger trend at your company, you could consider looking for a job elsewhere.
如果你认为微薄的奖金是你们公司整体趋势的一部分，你可以考虑跳槽。
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