If you come along quietly, I'll try to get you an extra ration of gruel.

宽，抗拒严。

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。

It's better than hardtack and gruel, that's for sure.

这是更好的，比硬面饼和稀粥， 那是肯定的。

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。

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）。

" 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。”

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.

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人的想法大不相同——到目前为止，德主要是作为发号施令者（此前德一直认为只有欧元区各统一标准、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。