Pittance

(noun.) an inadequate payment; 'they work all day for a mere pittance'.

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• Amelia thinks, and thinks, and racks her brain, to find some means of increasing the small pittance upon which the household is starving. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• And then she shewed him how, by executing various designs and paintings, she earned a pittance for her support. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• She procured plain work; she plaited straw; and by various means contrived to earn a pittance scarcely sufficient to support life. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• How the deuce am I to keep up my position in the world upon such a pitiful pittance? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The widow must live on her slender pittance, or on such aid as Jos could give her. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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