a very small amount of money that somebody receives, for example as a wage, and that is hardly enough to live on 微薄的工資;極少的報酬 to pay somebody a pittance 付給某人菲薄的工資 to work for a pittance 爲一點小錢而工作 She could barely survive on the pittance she received as a pension. 她靠微薄的養老金勉強度日。
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French pitance, from medieval Latin pitantia, from Latin pietas ‘pity’.