Still, the late 60's were lean years for Ali.

对阿里来说，60年代末依然是不景气的一段时期。

Britain's regime, unlike Norway's, does not encourage oilmen to keep going in lean years.

英国海域与挪威不同，不鼓励石油商在歉收年继续开采。

Workers, who made sacrifices in the lean years, receive a share of those profits.

工人们在经济不景气的年份做出了牺牲，他们也得到了利润的一部分。

In the five lean years since the financial crisis, Aggreko's stock has risen by 260%.

其股价由2003年的1镑飘升到18镑。金融危机以来的五年，业绩更好，其股票上涨260%。

With judicious economy, he told his brother, I shall hope to make that carry me through the lean years.

凭借着精打细算，他告诉自己的兄弟，我指望这笔钱能让我度过艰苦的岁月。

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被现代主义规划者所喜爱的水泥乌托邦所取代。

Those who do not, or cannot, probably face leaner years than they had expected.

那些没有或不能做到的人可能会面临比他们预期的更瘦的岁月。

His wife was a source of constant support during the lean years.

【lean】在不景气的那些年里，妻子一直是他的依靠。

Since then, this building has been leaning a little bit more each year.

从那时起，这座建筑每年都倾斜一点。

Uh, and my parents were really at a state, I think with their own finances, where those lean years we really had growing up weren't the state of our family anymore.

呃，我认为我父母当时的财务状况确实很糟糕，我们成长过程中的那些艰难岁月已经不再是我们家庭的状况了。

To assess the survival rates of killer whales in lean years, the study examined census data for two populations, of Washington State and British Columbia, as well as annual catch numbers from chinook salmon fisheries in the Pacific Northwest.

为了评估虎鲸在淡季的存活率，该研究调查了美国华盛顿州和加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省沿岸两个虎鲸种群的统计数据，以及太平洋西北部奇努克鲑鱼渔场的年度捕获量。