chicken feed

基本解釋

They only pay chicken feed--not even enough money to pay my rent.
他們付的工資實(shí)在太少，還不夠我付房租呢。
For him, that's chicken feed--barely enough to cover travel and hotel expenses.
對(duì)他來說，那筆錢太少了，衹夠支付旅行和旅館費(fèi)用。
The concentrations of hexachlorocyclohexane isomers(HCHs) in muscle, skin, liver, stomach, heart, eggs, feed and feces of chicken from a poultry farm were determined by GC-ECD.
用氣相色譜-電子捕獲器法測(cè)定了北京郊區(qū)某養(yǎng)雞場(chǎng)不同生長(zhǎng)期的飼養(yǎng)雞的肌肉、表皮、肝髒、胃、心髒以及雞蛋、飼料和糞便中HCH的殘畱濃度。

Both of these policies have raised demand in the country for millet and sorghum, which provide alternative sources of flour as well as chicken-feed.
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Ethanol is made from corn--otherwise known as chicken feed.
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If you think that an amount of money is so small it is hardly worth having or considering, you can say that it is chickenfeed.