Low income
微薄───meager;收入───income
During their six- to twelve-week voyage, they subsisted on meager rations.───在六到十二周的航行中，他们靠微薄的口粮维持生活。
It's difficult to raise a family on a meager income.───微薄的收入是很难养家的。
Members of poor peasant families spun or wove cloth and linens at home for scant remuneration in an attempt to supplement meager family income.───贫穷农民家庭的成员在家纺织布和亚麻以挣得很少的报酬，弥补微薄的家庭收入。
Her father earned a meager living as a truck driver, her mother was an office assistant.───靓颖的父亲是一名收入微薄的货车司机，母亲是普通员工。
Superficially, Korean people seem to be tough, but deep down inside, they have been proven meager.───韩国人表面上看起来不可一世，自称最强硬，但骨子里却被证明是懦弱无能。
Individual power is pitifully meager; she oscillates between feeling good and bad, as if she knows that this is a never-ending movement.───个人力量何其渺小，她心情忽高忽低，彷佛知道这是一场没完没了的运动。
His meager wage is not enough to support their five children.
The day was full of hard sunlight, meager clouds looking like white foam just beginning to evaporate.
He has meager job prospects and a dim future.
His meager allotment of gas had to be saved for emergencies.
A meager number of non-governmental organizations have time for health and safety issues in Nogales' maquilas.