meagre: [14] Meagre originally meant literally ‘thin’ (it goes back via Anglo-Norman megre and Old French maigre to Latin macer ‘thin’, source also of English emaciate [17]). Not until the 16th century did the modern figurative sense ‘scanty’ begin to emerge. (Its distant Indo- European ancestor, incidentally, *makró-, also produced a parallel Germanic form mager ‘thin’, shared by German, Dutch, Swedish, and Danish.) => emaciate
meagre (adj.)
chiefly British English spelling of meager (q.v.); for spelling, see -re.
雙語例句
1. The bank's staff were already angered by a meagre 3.1% pay rise.
銀行職員對只加薪3.1%已心生怒火。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The patient isn't restricted to a meagre diet.
并沒有限制這位病人少吃東西。
來自柯林斯例句
3. a meagre diet of bread and water
只有面包和水的粗茶淡飯
來自《權威詞典》
4. The diet should be suitable, being neither too rich nor too meagre.