词义：n. 少量、微薄的报酬或津贴
词性：名词
词组搭配：give/receive a pittance（得到很少的报酬或津贴）；earn a pittance（挣微薄的收入）；live on a pittance（只能靠微薄的收入生活）；work for a pittance（为微薄的报酬工作）
短语：无
发音拼写：[‘p?t?ns]
5个中英例句：
1. He works long hours for a pittance, just to make ends meet.（他为微薄的报酬长时间工作，只为维持生计。）
2. The company is shamefully paying its workers a pittance while the executives earn millions.（该公司为其工人微薄地支付薪资，而高管们却赚取了数百万。）
3. I can’t believe how little they pay the interns – it’s a real pittance.（我简直不敢相信他们支付实习生的报酬是多么微薄，真是太少了。）
4. The widowed mother had to raise three children on a pittance.（那位丧夫的母亲只能靠微薄的津贴抚养三个孩子。）
5. As an artist, she knew that she might never earn much money, but it was still disheartening to receive only a pittance for her work.（作为一名艺术家，她知道自己可能永远无法赚到很多钱，但只得到微薄的报酬还是让人沮丧。）
pittance的意思是微薄的工资，少得可怜的津贴。
读音： [‘p?tns]
例句：
1. She earns a pittance as a part-time waitress.
（她作为员的收入微薄。）
2. The company offered him a pittance for his years of hard work.
（公司对他多年辛勤工作的报酬微不足道。）
pittance在英语中代表”少量报酬 、极少的报酬”的意思，在日常中也代表”微薄的薪俸”的意思，单词读音音标为[‘pitns]，pittance在英语中经常以名词形式出现，在《学生实用英汉双解大词典》中，共找到94个与pittance相关的句子。
1.少量报酬
例句:People, usually migrants from rural areas and jobless citizens, are hired to queue up for different types of tickets in large cities in return for a pittance, they are called hired queuers. (代排族，指在大城市里被雇来替别人排队获取各类票证，然后从中获得报酬的那些人，从事这一行业的多为农民工或者无业人员。)
2.极少的报酬
例句:A hearty “well done” from Her Majesty the Queen and a pittance of a pension. (只获得英女皇一句由衷的赞赏 和少量的退休金)
3.微薄的薪俸
例句:The shrewd Hutt kept Barada forever in his debt by paying him a pittance yet charging him room and board. (精明的赫特人给他住处和食物，但只支付微薄的工资，让他永远债台高筑。)
4.微薄的收入、微薄的薪俸
例句:On the pittance you pay me i’ve only got a few things. (翻译:以你付给我的那点微薄收入 我只能买几件而已)
pittance一般作为名词使用，如在pittance payment([网络] 付款方式)等常见短语中出现较多。
pittance payment[网络] 付款方式1. The shrewd Hutt kept Barada forever in his debt by paying him a pittance yet charging him room and board. (翻译:精明的赫特人给他住处和食物，但只支付微薄的工资，让他永远债台高筑。)
2. On the pittance you pay me i’ve only got a few things. (翻译:以你付给我的那点微薄收入 我只能买几件而已)
3. So $50, 000 might be a fortune in a small town, but a mere pittance in a big city. (翻译:所以，50,000美元可能在一个小镇是一笔财富，但是在大城市仅仅是微薄的报酬。)
4. Years ago, I made an investment in him, a pittance, which he built into an empire. (翻译:几年前 我在他身上 投资了一点小钱 而他却因此构建了一个王国)
5. The shrewd Hutt kept Barada forever in his debt by paying him a pittance yet charging him room and board. (翻译:精明的赫特人给他住处和食物，但只支付微薄的工资，让他永远债台高筑。)
6. While a $57, 000 tax-free check is no pittance, it is important to put that figure in perspective. (翻译:然而，一项免税的5.7万美元的支票并不低，正确地看待这一数字非常重要。)
7. People, usually migrants from rural areas and jobless citizens, are hired to queue up for different types of tickets in large cities in return for a pittance, they are called hired queuers . (翻译:代排族，指在大城市里被雇来替别人排队获取各类票证，然后从中获得报酬的那些人，从事这一行业的多为农民工或者无业人员。)
8. At the moment mainland residents can legally move only a pittance abroad in any given year. (翻译:目前，中国的居民每年通过合法的方式只能够转移少量的资金到海外。)
9. Either I gave up work and we lived on a pittance or I went on working and paid for her to be cared for. (翻译:还可能会发现其它线索 {3cH202020}There may still be elements that come to light. 您觉得我们还有多大的机会 {3cH202020}What chance do you think we have?)
10. They might be well-to-do, but their finances were a pittance in comparison with the Culhances’. (翻译:他们会富裕的，但是与卡亨斯家族相比，他们的钱财是很微薄的。)
11. The pittance your father used to pay me as rent won’t even keep me in tea. (翻译:当年爸给我的那点租钱，还不够我喝茶用的呢。)
12. According to Prof Mathews, these illegal workers carry the economy of Chungking Mansions as they are willing to work for a pittance. (翻译:麦登高表示，这些非法劳工撑起了重庆大厦的经济，他们愿以微薄的薪水干活。)
13. Her secretaries work tirelessly for a pittance. (翻译:她的秘书们为了一点微薄的工资不知疲倦地工作。)
14. if both girls had married, this beauty would have had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to a very serious extent. (翻译:所以很明显，如果两个女孩都结婚了，这好人就只剩下很少的薪俸了，而且其中一个就可能把他推到严重的境地。)
15. People, usually migrants from rural areas and jobless citizens, are hired to queue up for different types of tickets in large cities in return for a pittance. (翻译:在大城市里被雇来替别人排队获取不同类票证，以获得微薄报酬的那些人，通常是来自乡村地区的移民者和无业人员。)
pittance作为名词的时候，其近义词以及反义词有s、pittances等。
