Budgets for running jails tend to be meagre .

预算内拨给监狱的资金十分微薄。

Its nominal gdp-growth targets are meagre .

提出的gdp增长目标也少得可怜。

My attainments were few , my knowledge of life meagre , and both in my poetry and my prose the sentiment exceeded the substance .

我的造诣很浅，生活知识贫乏，在我的诗歌和散文中，情感超过了内容。

Meagre returns have not helped .

基金微薄的回报也帮不上什么忙。

Britain fails to hand out even its meagre allocation of work visas .

英国甚至都没发完它那微薄定额的工作签证。