paltry的意思|paltry的解释-里氏词典

paltry ['pɒ:ltri]

a. 不足取的, 琐碎的, 可鄙的

paltry
paltrier, paltriest

[ adj ]

not worth considering

<adj.all>

he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost

piffling efforts

a trifling matter

contemptibly small in amount

<adj.all>

a measly tip

the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief

a paltry wage

almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans

paltry \pal"try\ (p[add]l"tr[y^]), a. [Compar. {Paltrier}
(p[add]l"tr[i^]*[~e]r); superl. {Paltriest}.] [Cf. Prov. E.
paltry refuse, rubbish, LG. palterig ragged, palte, palter, a
rag, a tatter, Dan. pialt, Sw. palta, pl. paltor.]
Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful;
trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold. --Cowper.

The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost. --Byron.

Syn: See {Contemptible}.

But that's still a paltry return on sales of $2.65 billion, and the increase compared with weak profits of $3.6 million in 1989.
The number of illegal border crossings in Capt Piiroinen's 25km sector has more than than halved since 1990 to a paltry 20 last year.
So, UK smaller companies, which have outperformed by a paltry 30 per cent since they touched bottom late in 1992, must have further potential.
The peak dividend years, averaging payout growth of 13 percent, were followed in the ensuing six-month periods by returns on the Standard & Poor's 500-stock composite index averaging a paltry 1.8 percent.
Big Board volume was 268.9 million shares, up from a paltry semi-holiday turnover of 86.4 million on Friday.
The tax will still raise only the paltry 15 per cent of council spending budgeted for next year.
A $5.95 paperback parody of university literary reviews has sold a paltry 250 copies since 1984, leaving 3,250 unsold and about $3,500 in unrecovered costs.
In Mexico, for example, accumulated Spanish investment up to August 1991 was a paltry Dollars 726m, compared to the US investment of Dollars 20.7bn.
For the U.S., that leaves one way to raise the amount of savings available for private investment: cut the federal budget deficit, which is causing the government to borrow nearly half the nation's paltry supply of savings.
Those who got in during 1965 had an annual average 10-year return of a paltry 1.24%.
Rank Organisation was also dragged lower, dipping 4 to 538p on paltry volume. Hints that price discounting on holiday packages may not be as bad as feared pushed Airtours forward 11 to 227p.
During the first 11 months of 1991, investors put a paltry $2.1 billion into these funds, just 3% of all money going into bond mutual funds.
Few deals over $2 billion _ a paltry sum by last year's standards _ were completed in 1989.
At that rate, Mr. Krieger would have netted $15 million, not a paltry $3 million.
Foreign business people said Albania wants badly to increase its foreign trade, currently a paltry $860,000 a year.
The National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations system composite index of over-the-counter stocks advanced 13.3% in the first quarter, but the Dow Jones Industrial Average posted a paltry 2.5% gain.
But 18 months after the Soviet Union started allowing in Western business executives, the level of foreign investment is paltry.
First section volume was a paltry 300 million shares, down sharply from 600 million shares Friday.
Volume was a paltry 4,791 contracts. In traded options, British Steel was the top traded stock, recording 3,570 contracts.
The Soviets own Israel's Supreme Court building, but an arcane rent-control law keeps revenues at a paltry level.
Partly as a result, government securities dealers reported paltry demand for the Treasury's $6.51 billion of seven-year notes, which were auctioned at an average yield of 8.67% yesterday.
Most of Japan agrees with him, evinced by the Social Democratic party's paltry 15.4 per cent showing in last summer's general election. Yet on closer examination, Japan's unlikely new leader may not be the disaster he may seem.
They give his only challenger, Abbas Sheibani, a colorless former agriculture minister, a paltry 11 percent.
A report on the second-quarter gross national product pegged growth at a paltry 1.2 percent.
The rates of interest available on current accounts have dwindled to paltry levels and can be beaten easily elsewhere (as David Barchard shows on the opposite page). The problem is that changing accounts involves a lot of hassle.
With only two paltry domestic stock exchanges, local equities cannot do the job.
Last quarter the unit earned a paltry $1 million and in the quarter before it had a $28 million loss before a charge.
Giants Merrill Lynch & Co. and PaineWebber Group Inc. reported last week that their first-quarter earnings quadrupled and tripled, respectively, from paltry, year-earlier levels.
GM Hungary has a one-shift capacity to produce a paltry 15,000 cars a year at Szentgotthard.
Corporate finance earned Dollars 1.1bn, sharply up on Dollars 293m in 1991. The bank's return on assets in 1992 was still a paltry 0.32 per cent, less than half the US industry average.

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