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Перевод: pittance
[существительное] скудное вспомоществование; скудное жалованье; жалкие гроши; небольшая часть; небольшое количество; подачка
Тезаурус:
- For him to go to Stuttgart he would have had to pay his own way (I was gaining only a pittance from athletics at this time).
- Management has a choice about workers: it can pay them a pittance to control an on-off button, or minimise down time by training them to fix - ie program - the new machines.
- The pittance that he allowed her to keep herself and his two children could not make much of a dent in Tawell's more than robust bank account.
- I translated Schiller's Don Carlos and revised my version of Heinrich von Kleist's Prinz von Homburg for Eric Bentley's anthology of classic German theatre, for which I was paid a pittance.
- The absence of distinction between a Lieutenant Colonel's comparative wealth and a newly joined Ensign on a pittance, made him sorrowfully aware that he alone in this very superior mess, was unendowed with private means.
- They are excluded from using more land, and they often work onerous hours on the land which they do own for a pittance.
- "And they are paid a pittance," Mrs Theobald interrupted.
- Because he pays his Algerian workers a pittance, that's why.
- She had to be, her allowance a pittance.
- "I'll be doing 'em a favour - magazines pay a pittance anyway.
- Five hundred intis, a pittance for the gringo.
- In his amateur days he was an "eviction technician" (a fashionable euphemism for bouncer) but such work is regarded as unseemly for the standard bearer of a sport which prides itself in its healthy clean-living image, and he now supplements his income from the few competitions which pay more than a pittance by personal appearances.
- The Americans got their ore, but the British received a pittance of information in return.
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