1. He received a paltry annuity of $100. 他收到了微不足道的100美元年金。
2. This account offers a paltry 1% return on your investment. 这个账户给你投资的回报仅是微不足道的1%。
3. Ye paltry cowards, and arm yourselves and guard the doors, whilst I send one to fetch the watch! 你们这些没用的懦夫,武装起来,守住那些门,我派一个人去叫卫兵!
4. Oracle must chuckle every time an open-source operating system company reports its paltry profits or losses. 每当一家开源操作系统公司报告其微薄的利润或亏损时,甲骨文公司肯定会窃笑。
5. Only paltry sums are available for excavating and even less is available for publishing the results and preserving the sites once excavated. 只有很少的钱可以支持挖掘工作,而可以用来公布结果和保存曾经被挖掘的遗址的钱就更少了。