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1·The company recovered well after going through several lean years.

经历了几年的萧条后，这家公司的业务才完全恢复了正常。《牛津词典》

2·My parents lived through the lean years of the 1930s.

我的父母经历了20世纪30年代的萧条期。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·Ladies and gentlemen, the signs are evident in many areas. The lean years are upon us in terms of the global economic outlook.

女士们，先生们，许多领域已有明显迹象显示，全球经济前景不佳，我们需要过若干年苦日子。

4·When I look back, I see those lean years as a test to see if I could learn how to give even when it seemed to hurt to do so.

回首往事，那些艰难的日子就像是一场考试，来测试我是否已经学会：即使在布施做起来很痛苦的时候，也不能够放弃。

5·Yet the lean years helped to stop the city's historic buildings being replaced by the concrete utopias beloved of modernist planners.

但是，几年的经济萧条却有助于阻止城市的历史建筑不被现代主义规划者所喜爱的水泥乌托邦所取代。

6·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.

在不景气的年份，预言家们也承认这一点，但他们认为已知金矿中受到影响的数量有限，不足以抵消黄金储备的缩水。

7·A good farmer must prepare for lean years. Natural disasters, even bizarrely localized ones such as yours, are bound to happen. next year your crop will be stronger.

一个好的农民必须为荒年做好准备！自然灾害，哪怕是像你遇到的这种不常发生的也总是会发生的。明年你的庄稼会长的更好的。

8·He and his team compared the rectal temperatures of 287 lean and obese dogs over several years.

教授和他的研究小组在几年间，对287只苗条和肥胖的狗狗的直肠温度进行比较。

9·During the last 20 years, we also implemented a lot of these new lean methodologies and processes.

在过去的20年，我们也同时执行了当中一些新的精益方法和流程。

10·Here I was twelve years old, and my Dad would lean over and kiss me good-bye!

那时我已经12岁了，而爸爸还俯身给我一个道别的亲吻。