One of them said Sunday the charges against Trump are pretty thin gruel.

其中一人周日说，对特朗普的指控毫无根据。

The food was horrific — dirty water served alongside rotting meat, gruel, and nearly inedible bread.

食物太可怕了——脏水配着腐烂的肉、稀粥和几乎不能吃的面包。

Do you suppose my subscribers are going to stand such gruel as that?

你认为我的订阅者会忍受这样的粥吗？

Give it a little gruel if it is.

如果是的话，给它一点粥。

The relief was inseparable from the workhouse and the gruel; and that frightened people.

济贫院和粥是分不开的。这吓坏了人。

Hannah had brought me some gruel and dry toast, about, as I supposed, the dinner-hour.

汉娜给我带来了一些稀粥和干吐司，我想大概是在晚餐时间。

They grumbled that they only had gruel and groundnut to eat.

他咕哝着说他只有稀粥和落花生可吃。

You think maybe sitting alone with my thoughts for fifty-six hours has made gruel out of my brains?

你认为也许我独自一人思考了五十六个小时， 已经把我的大脑了稀粥？

Scrooge, in dressing-gown, slippers, and nightcap, sits before a fire. He is eating from a bowl of gruel, and his face is scowling.

[斯克鲁奇穿着睡衣、拖鞋和睡帽，坐在火炉前。他正吃着一碗稀粥，脸色阴沉。

Wipe your eyes with the cuffs of your jacket, and don't cry into your gruel; that's a very foolish action, Oliver.

以衣袖口拭目，莫哭粥；这是一个非常愚蠢的行为，奥利弗。

Now, Olive was truly alone, save the continued kindness of the chief's wife and daughter, which she said sustained her more than any bit of gruel or handful of corn.

现在，奥莉薇真的是孤身一人了，除了酋长的妻子和女儿一直对她很好，她说这比任何粥或一把玉米都更能支撑她。

Mrs. March gave the mother tea and gruel, and comforted her with promises of help, while she dressed the little baby as tenderly as if it had been her own.

马奇太太把茶和麦糊给那个可怜的妇人，并且安慰她，说还会来帮助她的。

The gruel disappeared; the boys whispered each other, and winked at Oliver; while his next neighbors nudged him. Child as he was, he was desperate with hunger, and reckless with misery.

粥不见了；男相窃窃私语，向奥利弗使眼色。而他的下一个邻居则轻推他。尽管他还是个子，但他对饥饿感到绝望，对痛苦不顾一切。

For, as he is making increasingly plain, Mr Monti's ideas on how to resolve it are significantly at odds with those of the Germans who have until now been doing most of the ordering—and choosing pretty thin gruel.

因为蒙蒂正愈发清晰地表明在如何解决危机的问题上他与那些德国人的想法大不相同——到目前为止，德国主要是作为发号施令者（此前德国一直认为只有欧元区各国统一标准、严守财政纪律，才能克服欧元区管理存在的结构性缺陷——译注），却没有给出什么有效的解决措施。

The master, in his cook's uniform, stationed himself at the copper; his pauper assistants ranged themselves behind him; the gruel was served out; and a long grace was said over the short commons.

师傅穿着他厨师的制服，在铜站站岗。他的穷助手排在他身后。稀饭端上来了；并在短暂的公地上说了一个长期的宽限期。

" Oh, certainly, sir! I'll just fetch a little sewing, and then I'll sit as long as you please. But you've caught cold: I saw you shivering, and you must have some gruel to drive it out."

“啊，当然可以，先生！我就去拿点针线来，然后你要我坐多久，都可以。可是你着凉啦。我看见你直哆嗦，你得喝点粥去去寒气。”

But after withering away for a month, fed so sparely on rice gruel that he felt an urge to consume the flesh of the dead, he was asked to paint portraits of the regime's leader, Pol Pot.

一个月过去他逐渐消瘦萎靡，吃的不过是稀粥，他只想速死，但这时有人要他去画领袖像：红色高棉的领袖波尔布特（Pol Pot）。

He had hardly achieved this very unusual gymnastic performance, when Mr. Bumble brought him, with his own hands, a basin of gruel, and the holiday allowance of two ounces and a quarter of bread.

他还没有完这种非常不寻常的体操表演，班布尔先生就亲手给他端来一盆稀粥和两盎司零四分之一面包的假期津贴。

Conscience had pricked him, maybe; he had no longer the heart to see the district where he had been Lensmand famishing on home-made gruel and short of money. Or had he got his quarter of a million?

良心已经刺痛了他，也许；他再也不忍心看到他曾经在伦斯曼德所在的地区饥肠辘辘，缺钱吃自制的粥。或者他得到了他的百万分之一？

Only see that, if you go hungry, your horse does not; but give him his warm gruel and beer, and take him gently home, remembering that good horses don't grow on the hedge like blackberries.

只看，如果你饿了，你的马不会；但给他温热的稀饭和啤酒，然后轻轻地带他回家，记住好马不像黑莓那样长在树篱上。