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I like the hours and the people, but the pay is measly.
我喜歡這裡的工作時間和同事，但薪水非常微薄。
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Natural selection is like a robot that can only climb uphill, even if this leaves it stuck on top of a measly hillock.
自然選擇就如同一個衹能上山的機器人，即使這會使它停畱在一座微不足道的小山的山頂。
Those plates had been designed to call attention to the fact that Washington, DC has only one measly non-voting delegate in Congress.
設計這些牌照的目的是引起大家對華盛頓特區衹有少得可憐的一個在國會的非投票代表這一事實的關注。

India has some 545 million cell phones and a measly 80 million Internet users.
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According to Fortune magazine, the insurance industry posted a measly 2.2% profit margin in 2009.
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How do you make a product that satisfies their needs on a measly budget?
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If you describe an amount, quantity, or size as measly, you are critical of it because it is very small or inadequate.