"my meager sensibilities" Chinese-English Dictionary
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 薄面 | my meager sensibilities / blushing face / please do it for my sake (i.e. to save my face)(humble) |
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 度日 | to pass one's days / to scratch out a difficult, meager existence | syn | |
| 微薄 | scanty / meager | syn | |
| 情面 | feelings and sensibilities / sentiment and face / sensitivity to other's feelings | syn | |
| 低微 | meager (wages) / humble (social status) / feeble (voice) | syn | |
| 贫乏 貧乏 | impoverished / lacking / deficient / limited / meager / impoverishment / lack / deficiency | syn | |
| 清瘦 | meager | syn | |
| 绵薄 綿薄 | my humble effort / my meager contribution (humble) | syn | |
| 拾荒 | to glean / to collect scraps / to eke out a meager living | syn | |
| 菲薄 | humble / meager / thin / to despise | syn | |
| 薄 | meager / slight / weak / ungenerous or unkind / frivolous / to despise / to belittle / to look down on / to approach or near | syn | |
| 薄礼 薄禮 | my meager gift (humble) | syn | |
| 相濡以沫 | lit. (of fish) to moisten each other with spittle (when water is drying up) (idiom) / fig. to share meager resources / mutual help in humble circumstances | syn | |
| 衣单食薄 衣單食薄 | thin coat, meager food (idiom) / life of wretched poverty / destitute | ||
| 清汤寡水 清湯寡水 | meager fare / (fig.) insipid / colorless | syn | |
| 微薄的 | meager | ||
| 俭薄 儉薄 | meager / poor | ||
| 升斗 | liter and decaliter dry measure / (fig.) meager quantity of foodstuff | ||
| 德薄能鲜 德薄能鮮 | little virtue and meager abilities (idiom) / I'm a humble person and not much use at anything (Song writer Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修[Ou1 yang2 Xiu1]) | ||
| 浅陋 淺陋 | shallow and crude / meager (knowledge or skill) | syn | |
| 浅鲜 淺鮮 | meager / slight | ||
| 糊嘴 | to scrape a meager living / to get by with difficulty | ||
| 薄待 | mean treatment / indifference / meager hospitality | ||
| 薄技 | meager skill / my poor talents (humble) | ||
| 薄产 薄產 | meager estate / small means | ||
| 薄酬 | small reward (for work) / meager remuneration | ||
| 相濡以沫 | lit. (of fish) to moisten each other with spittle (when out of the water) (idiom) / fig. to share meager resources and support each other in times of difficulty | syn |