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.(在大城市里被雇來替別人排隊獲取不同類票證，以獲得微薄報酬的那些人，通常是來自鄉村地區的移民者和無業人員。)

The emergency food and medicine that47of the world's wealthiest nations have now promised to send to the former Soviet Union amount to a pittance. But the gesture is important.(世界上最富有的47個國家對前蘇聯所承諾提供的食物與藥品不過區區之數，但是意義重大。)

This helps to explain why advertisers will only pay a pittance for page views on many social networks.(這有助于解釋為什么廣告商按頁面瀏覽量只付給許多社交網微薄的廣告費。)

That, alas, is a mere pittance in the context of this year's broader lending spree.(令人遺憾的是，這在今年的廣泛的貸款熱潮中甚是微薄。)

This reserve is earning "a pittance," he says. "But we sleep well."(他說，這筆儲備賺錢很少，但保證“我們睡的安穩”。)

Gilbert should be thanking him too — the salary he doled out to James was a pittance compared to the victories and money that rolled in during his Cleveland reign.(吉爾伯特也應該感謝他，因為相對于詹姆斯為克利夫蘭帶來的勝利和金錢而言，吉爾伯特付給他的薪水可謂微薄至極。)

Qin: Now, young man, don't you think it's about time we raised the rent a bit?The pittance your father used to pay me as rent won't even pay my tea!(秦仲義：小王，這兒的房租是不是得往上提那么一提呢?當年你爸爸給我的那點租錢，還不夠我喝茶用的呢！)

The poorest 51 countries received just 8 per cent of total capital flows - a pittance when compared with the whole pie.(最貧困的51個國家只獲得了全部資本流動的8%-與整個蛋糕相比微乎其微。)

For the world's second-largest economy, it is a pittance.(對于世界第二大經濟大國來說，這個數字少的可憐。)

If anybody believes in the basketball gods or whatever, he has paid his pittance to them.(如果有籃球上帝或者什么的，他應該看到奧多姆已經付出很多了。)

He was granted a small pittance.