The winter is upon us, not the snow, The hills are etched on the horizon bare, The skies are iron grey, a bitter air, The meagre cloudlets shudder to and fro. One yellow leaf the listless wind doth blow, Like some strange butterfly, unclassed and rare. Your footsteps ring in frozen alleys, where The black trees seem to shiver as you go.英文原著 · 《Ballads in Blue China and Verses and Translations》
Guid life! Where's ma check-book?" Whereat Jim, most easily snubbed of men, collapsed. M'Adam took off his dripping coat and crossed the room to hang it on a chair-back. The stranger drover followed the meagre, shirt-clad figure with shifty eyes; then he buried his face in his mug. M'Adam reached out a hand for the chair; and as he did so, a bomb in yellow leapt out from beneath it, and, growling horribly, at tacked his ankles. "Curse ye!" cried M'Adam, starting back. "Ye devil, let me alone!" Then turning fiercely on the drover, " Yours, mister?" he asked. The man nodded.英文原著 · 《Bob Son of Battle》
But I'll mak' it up to him--mak' it up to him, and mair. I'll humble masel' afore him, and that'll be bitter enough. And I'll be father and mither baith to him. But there's bin none to help me; and it's bin sair wi'oot ye. And--. but, eh, lassie, I'm wearyin' for ye!"
It was a dreary little procession that wound in the drizzle from Kenmuir to the little Dale Church. At the head stalked James Moore, and close behind David in his meagre coat. While last of all, as if to guide the stragglers in the weary road, come Owd Bob.英文原著 · 《Bob Son of Battle》
I cannot adequately relate my astonishment at this uncommon inscription! The meagre but suffi- cient identification of the deceased; the impudent candour of confession; the brutal anathema; the ludicrous change of sex and sentiment--all marked this record as the work of one who must have been at least as much demented as bereaved. I felt that any further disclosure would be a paltry anti-climax, and with an unconscious regard for dramatic effect turned squarely about and walked away. Nor did I return to that part of the county for four years.英文原著 · 《Can Such Things Be》
The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand. And in the withered hollow of this land Hath Summer dug herself so deep a grave, That hardly can the leaden willow crave One silver blossom from keen Winter's hand.英文原著 · 《Charmides and Other》
AI 补充例句（附中文翻译）
The refugees survived on a meagre diet of bread and water for several weeks.
She struggled to support her family on the meagre wages from her part-time job.
Despite his meagre savings, he decided to quit his job and travel the world.尽管积蓄少得可怜，他还是决定辞职去环游世界。