[每日] paltry (a) 無價值的
Word of the Day (Friday December 26, 2008)
paltry \PAWL-tree\, adjective:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/c75av
1. almost worthless; trifling
2. of no worth; contemptible, despicable
The Denver defense is in tatters, ranking among the worst in the
league, surrendering 31 points to a Raiders team that had been
averaging a paltry 12.8 per game.
-- Mark Kiszla, Denver Post, 11/24/2008
It has long been acknowledged, for instance, that the British
Secret Intelligence Service has compensated for its paltry size
- it has about one-tenth the manpower of the CIA - by leveraging
the reputation of its most famous fictional spy, James Bond.
-- Kelly M. Greenhill, Los Angeles Times, 5/28/2007
Almost everything on the vastly unimaginative happy hour menu
contains pico de gallo and sour cream, including small, wizened
potato skins containing a few paltry crumbles of bacon.
-- Nikki Buchanan, The Arizona Republic, 11/25/2008
by 1565, probably associated with dialectic palt, pelt "trash,"
cognate with Middle Low German and East Frisian palte "rag," and
Middle Dutch palt "broken or torn fragment." Comparative and
superlative forms are paltrier and paltriest.
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