paltry的中文解释是‘不足取的、微不足道的’，在英美地区还有’琐碎的’的意思，发音音标为[p’?:ltri]，在英语中以名词出现较多，在《荷林斯高阶英汉词典》中，共找到59个与paltry相关的句子。
1.不足取的
例句:Colleagues, when our clients come to us confused and angry and hurting because their flame of love is guttering and threatens to die, do we seek to extinguish that flame so that we can sift through the smoldering wreckage for our paltry reward?
翻译:当客户来找我们 又彷徨又愤怒又伤心 他们爱的火焰明灭不定 我们应该熄灭火焰。
来源：牛津英汉双解词典
2.微不足道的
例句:The enemy outnumber us a paltry three to one.
翻译:他们的兵力不过三倍于我们。
来源：英语ABC实用语法词典
3.琐碎的
例句:Prayers for your paltry Rs.15. Cost of offering prayer is Rs.20.
翻译:为了你区区十五卢比 还愿却要花掉二十卢比。
来源：英国翻译词典
4.可鄙的、琐碎的
例句:it’s taken you three years from my first reported case just to show up here for a look, and the paltry amount of money you are forcing us to beg for out of the $4 billion you now receive each and every year
翻译:距我第一次通报案例xx年后 你来这看了一眼 我们请求的资助 跟你们每年得到的40亿相比。
来源：英国翻译词典
paltry一般作为名词使用，如在paltry sum(微不足道的款项)等常见短语中出现较多。
1. Prayers for your paltry Rs.15. Cost of offering prayer is Rs.20.
翻译:为了你区区十五卢比 还愿却要花掉二十卢比。
2. it’s taken you three years from my first reported case just to show up here for a look, and the paltry amount of money you are forcing us to beg for out of the $4 billion you now receive each and every year
翻译:距我第一次通报案例xx年后 你来这看了一眼 我们请求的资助 跟你们每年得到的40亿相比。
3. if we fell glorious, with a bit of a flourish, we would have a respectable end and not dwindle away at some… nameless, paltry, second-Sunday-after such and such.
翻译:如果我们能漂漂亮亮的，有点再结束， 那我们也算有个完美的结局。 If we fell glorious, with a bit of a flourish, we would have a respectable end 而不是就那么不了了之。。
4. From its snow-covered top to it’s silt-covered bottom, then, this Hawaiian mountain is roughly 10,000 meters in height, dwarfing tiny Everest’s paltry peak by well over a kilometer.
翻译:从白雪皑皑的山颠 到水泽泥泞的山脚 这座夏威夷高山约有一万米 比珠穆朗玛峰 还高出一公里多 。
5. i’d borrowed a paltry sum… from one of our family companies… and fully intended to repay the loan with interest.
翻译:我是自作自受 是被我家族公司的一个人害苦 我本想还掉贷款。
6. -Lizzy! i see nothing in her paltry attack but her own ignorance and the malice of Mr. Darcy!
翻译:她这卑鄙的指责只让我看清 她的任性无知和达西的恶劣。
7. Now, maybe that’s a paltry amount, but their generosity just about broke my heart.
翻译:一定有办法把她们弄出来 我们是有 但她们只是小女生。
8. Look, i know our paltry little $2 million in sales… is about what you spend a year on office supplies.
翻译:是这样 我知道区区2百万的营业额 在你们看来只是零头。
9. The paltry armies of the universe are but playthings to me.
翻译:宇宙的微不足道的 但对我来说是玩具。。
10. They now have 29,000 ethanol pumps — this versus 700 in the U.S., and a paltry two in California — and in three years their new car fleet has gone from four percent to 85 percent flex-fuel.
翻译:巴西现拥有2万9千个乙醇加油泵， 相比较巴西，美国有700个，其中加利福尼亚仅仅有2个， 在未来xx年内，巴西新增车辆中 拥有智能燃料发动机的车辆将从4%增加到85%。。
11. No. Overconsumption of animals, and of course, junk food, is the problem, along with our paltry consumption of plants.
翻译:这是错的。对动物的过度食用，当然还有垃圾食品， 是问题所在，还有对植物类食品的摄入不足。 。
12. However, i should judge an increase of a paltry two pound per week to be wholly unacceptable.
翻译:但是，我认为每星期小小的增加两英镑 是完全不能接受的。
13. No. Overconsumption of animals, and of course, junk food, is the problem, along with our paltry consumption of plants.
翻译:这是错的。对动物的过度食用，当然还有垃圾食品， 是问题所在，还有对植物类食品的摄入不足。。
14. The Shadow cares nothing for money, we wouldn’t cheat you over a few paltry coins. One thousand as agreed.
翻译:暗影不在乎金钱 我们不会为了一点钱而骗你们 就像说好的 1000块。
15. A paltry love that already shows its limits.
