CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

微薄

wēibó

scanty

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

scanty

meager

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 微薄 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 微薄 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

她向我抱怨我微薄的薪水。tā xiàng wǒ bào yuàn wǒ wēi bó de xīn shuǐ。

She complained to me of my small salary.

凭着节俭，她设法以自己微薄的薪水生活。píng zhe jié jiǎn， tā shè fǎ yǐ zì jǐ wēi bó de xīn shuǐ shēng huó。

By frugality she managed to get along on her small salary.

我从来不是最有可能获得这一职务的候选人。我们刚开始并没有太多资金，也没有得到许多人的支持。我们的竞选活动并非始自华盛顿的大厅里，而是始于得梅因、康科德、查尔斯顿这些地方的普通民众家中。那些辛勤工作的人们从自己微薄的储蓄中捐出5美元、10美元、20美元。wǒ cóng lái bú shì zuì yǒu kě néng huò dé zhè yī zhí wù de hòu xuǎn rén。 wǒ men gāng kāi shǐ bìng méi yǒu tài duō zī jīn， yě méi yǒu dé dào xǔ duō rén de zhī chí。 wǒ men de jìng xuǎn huó dòng bìng fēi shǐ zì huá shèng dùn de dà tīng lǐ， ér shì shǐ yú dé méi yīn、 kāng kē dé、 chá ěr sī dùn zhè xiē dì fāng de pǔ tōng mín zhòng jiā zhōng。 nà xiē xīn qín gōng zuò de rén men cóng zì jǐ wēi bó de chǔ xù zhōng juān chū 5 měi yuán、10 měi yuán、20 měi yuán。

I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn't start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington. It began in the backyards of Des Moines, and the living rooms of Concord, and the front porches of Charleston. It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 微薄.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 微薄.

Directly before

自己微薄2
我微薄1
俸禄微薄1

Directly after

微薄的3

ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 微薄

What does 微薄 mean in Chinese?

微薄 (wēibó) means scanty.

How do you pronounce 微薄?

微薄 is pronounced wēibó.

Is 微薄 an HSK word?

微薄 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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