lean years

基本解释

Ms. Whitney says the gloomy short-term predictions foreshadow a series of lean years in the broader financial services industry.
惠特尼说短期悲观预测是这个广袤的金融服务产业领域即将迎来一系列不景气年数的预兆。
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。
Nurses have been awarded big pay increases since 2001-02, and this has eased stresses in the south. They are likely to re-emerge, however, as pay is restrained in the lean years ahead.
2001年到02年期间护士的工资有了大的提高，暂时缓和了南部的压力，但这种情况还会再次出现，因为毕竟如果以后遇上荒年工资会受限制。

we're going to lean on each other.' And that's what we've done here the last four years and this is the culmination of all that belief and that faith."

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