But even field-based data collection, which costs a pittance by comparison, struggles to achieve financial security.

但即使是基于现场数据收集，相比之下成本微不足道，也难以实现财务安全。

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

这是在苏联，意味着他们生活在贫困之中，为微薄收入做着繁重工作。

None observed that the uninviting pittance set aside for his midday repast, remained for several days untouched.

甚至没有谁注意到他那微薄薪水连吃午餐都不够，一连好几他都不吃午餐。

Though not small, the cost also looks like a pittance compared with many ideas to alleviate intergenerational poverty.

尽管成本不小，但与许多缓解代际贫困法相比，成本似乎也微乎其微。

Democrats today called that amount a pittance.

民主党称这一数额微不足道。

Oh, so you're working as somebody's lackey and getting paid a pittance.

乔纳斯：哦，所以你在当某走狗并且得到微薄报酬。

Jonas says, " Oh, so you're working as somebody's lackey and getting paid a pittance."

乔纳斯说，“哦，所以你是在做某走狗并且得到微薄报酬。

A pittance left to her now, at the eleventh hour?

现在，在最后一刻留给她是微不足道？

You have bartered it for a pittance of the public gold.

你用它换取了微不足道公共黄金。

" To get paid a pittance" (pittance) is to receive a very small amount of money.

“to get paid a pittance”（微薄）是指得到极少量钱。

Then they didn't need to live on a pittance.

然后他们就不必靠微薄薪水为生了。

But nothing could have made her worse than before; least of all a pittance left her by the dead.

但是没有什么比以前更糟了。最重要是死者给她留下了微不足道东西。

You sold your people for a pittance, gaining nothing from their sale.

你卖了你子民，也不赚利，所得价值，并不加添你资财。

If it's a very small amount, we might call it a pittance.

如果数量非常少，我们可以称之为微不足道。

A " pittance" is a very small amount of something, almost nothing.

“微不足道”是非常少量东西，几乎没有。

Probably, um, not. the one of us who's been saving up for a decade... because she makes a pittance compared to the other one of us, but...

也许不该是。存了几十年钱就为了这那个。因为跟另一个比起来，她赚不过是蝇头小利。

Other scrap metal crews heard it and liked it, so Marco sold it to them for a pittance–five pesos, the equivalent of about a quarter.

其他废金属工作员听到了它并且喜欢它，所以马可以微薄价格将其卖给他们——五比索，相当于大约四分之一。

The good achieved by each of these “beautiful souls” was small: the few lives the Serb and the Swiss policeman saved were a pittance when set against greater evils they could not stop.

少数让塞尔维亚存活了下来，瑞士警察所解救也只是沧海一粟，对其他更强大恶势力更是无能为力。

Crystal says, " No, not exactly, " meaning, once again, she's not exactly a lackey and getting paid a pittance, although there might be some truth to that description.

Crystal 说， “不，不完全是，”意思是，再一次，她不完全是一个走狗并且得到微薄报酬， 尽管这种描述可能有些道理。

His personalty was swallowed up in paying his debts, and the Welland estate was so heavily charged with annuities to his distant relatives that only a mere pittance was left for her.

他个财产被他债务吞没了， 韦兰财产被远亲年金负担得如此之重， 以至于只剩下微不足道钱给她。