They are still having to live on very low incomes.
他们现在还得靠微薄的收入过日子。
Nursing was ill-paid and grindingly hard work.
护理工作薪水微薄，艰苦难耐。
Old people often subsist on very small incomes.
老人往往靠十分微薄的收入艰难度日。
He could not support his family on his meager salary.
他靠微薄的工资无法养家.
I can't support my wife and children on such a small salary.
我薪水如此微薄,无法养家.
By frugality she managed to get along on her small salary.
凭着节俭,她设法以自己微薄的薪水生活.
His salary is low and he gets few luxuries.
他薪水微薄,很少买奢侈品.
I took a series of badly paid secretarial jobs which made me really miserable.
我做了几份薪酬微薄的秘书工作，这让我非常郁闷。
Don't feel ashamed — we don't despise the widow's mite , and, as they say, every penny helps.
不用觉得不好意思——我们不会瞧不起微薄但可贵的捐赠的, 正如人们说的, 每一文钱都会起作用.
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。
The rest of the old man's exiguous savings are donated to that boy.
那老人微薄积蓄中的剩余部分都捐赠给了那个男孩。
She turned her nose up at my small donation.
她嫌我捐赠微薄而嗤之以鼻.
Please accept this gift in token of our affection for you.
请接受这一礼物,这是我们微薄的情意.
She eked out her small income by washing clothes for other people.
她替人洗衣以贴补微薄的收入.
The low salary did not dispose him to accept the positon.
微薄的待遇使他不愿接受这项工作.