He has to offset his small salary by living economically.

他以节俭生活来抵消其收入。

There are many families struggling to survive on low incomes.

有许多家庭靠收入努力过活。

Some of us survive somehow on minimum earnings.

我们中一些人以收入苟且度日。

And, of course, most people are on minimal wages.

但是可想而知，这些工人拿收入。

How can he support his family on such a small income?

他靠如此收入要如何养家呢？

The heavy rains threatened North Korea's already meagre food supply.

暴雨致使朝鲜本已粮食供应上加霜。

I'm sick of the lousy tips. I'm sick of being called " Excuse Me."

我讨厌小费，讨厌被叫“麻烦过来一下”。

The result is that poorly paid women have few resources to fall back on.

结果，这些薪水女性能资源非常少。

To offer what little they have to help save Shrimply's life.

希望能贡献他们力量来拯救Shrimply生命。

We worked to survive and would be grateful for a minimal income.

干活只是为了生存，有点收入就已经很感恩了。

If that is the case, how do they survive on such meager wages?

如果真是如此 北韩人民如何靠如此薪水过活呢？

Finding financing to cover the gap has squeezed traders' slender margins.

寻找填补缺口资金压榨了贸易商利润。

She had decided to do outdoor work and earn a little money in the harvest.

她已决定到户外干点活儿，在收割季节挣一点收入。

Some of these people said they had jobs that paid a few pennies each to take surveys.

其中一些人称参与过几次待遇有偿调查。

They were very poor, and the mother had to work every day to earn a little money.

她们非常贫穷，妈妈不得不终日劳作挣些收入。

Ahmed Al-Omar and his fellow cancer patients are receiving the meager Treatment available.

艾哈迈德·奥马尔和他癌症患者同伴们正在接受治疗。

The SPD has paid dearly there, winning a meagre 12% of the vote in September.

社民党在图林根州付出了高昂代价，却仅仅在9月选举中获得了12%选票。

He even saved a large sum of money from his meagre income to finance her marriage.

他甚至从收入中存了一大笔钱来给孩子结婚用。

This being Soviet Russia, that meant doing backbreaking work for a pittance while wallowing in poverty.

这是在苏联，意味他们生活在贫困之中，为收入做繁重工作。

She may have walked miles just for that mouse...and such meagre pickings won't sustain a wolf.

它也许奔走了几英里只是为了抓一只老鼠，如此回报不足以支撑它生存。