lean years

基本解释

Ms. Whitney says the gloomy short-term predictions foreshadow a series of lean years in the broader financial services industry.
惠特尼說短期悲觀預測是這個廣袤的金融服務産業領域即將迎來一系列不景氣年數的預兆。
Prophets of lean years admit this, but reply that the number of known mines affected is not large enough to offset the indicated shrinkage in reserves.
在不景氣的年份，預言家們也承認這一點，但他們認爲已知金鑛中受到影響的數量有限，不足以觝消黃金儲備的縮水。
Nurses have been awarded big pay increases since 2001-02, and this has eased stresses in the south. They are likely to re-emerge, however, as pay is restrained in the lean years ahead.
2001年到02年期間護士的工資有了大的提高，暫時緩和了南部的壓力，但這種情況還會再次出現，因爲畢竟如果以後遇上荒年工資會受限制。

we're going to lean on each other.' And that's what we've done here the last four years and this is the culmination of all that belief and that faith."

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