exiguous
exiguous — 形容詞
- exiguouspositive
- more exiguouscomparative
- most exiguoussuperlative
1. so small in quantity or size that there is barely enough to serve a purpose — fo
微薄；極少
量很少，幾乎不夠用
so small in quantity or size that there is barely enough to serve a purpose — for example, an exiguous meal that leaves you still hungry, or an exiguous salary that just covers the rent and nothing more.
Thiago's exiguous income as a part-time cleaner could not feed his three children.
Thiago 擔任兼職清潔工的微薄收入無法養活他的三個孩子。
collocation: exiguous income; register: formal
Fatima wrote her school report with an exiguous supply of paper and one pencil.
Fatima 僅靠極少量的紙張和一支鉛筆寫完了她的學校報告。
collocation: exiguous supply of [noun]
The research team's exiguous budget meant they could only afford one computer.
研究團隊的預算極少，他們只買得起一台電腦。
After the war, families survived on exiguous portions of bread and soup.
戰後，許多家庭靠極少量的麵包和湯維生。
- meager
more common in everyday speech; suggests a disappointing insufficiency
- scant
emphasizes barely meeting a minimum requirement
- paltry
adds a tone of contempt for how little there is
- negligible
focuses on something being so small it can be ignored
用法筆記
This is a very formal, literary word. In everyday English, speakers tend to use 'tiny', 'meager', or 'scant' instead.