It enabled more households to smooth their consumption over time, reducing their financial hardship in lean times.

它使得更多家庭可以轧平消费波动，减轻它们在贫乏时期的财务困境。

Thomas, who lives in southern New Hampshire, began feeding the deer near her home in 2007, when a failure of the acorn crop led her to put out corn for the many wild creatures facing a lean time.

汤玛士生活在新罕布什尔州南部，二零零七年那里的橡子作物歉收，她拿出很多谷物喂给许多面对饥荒的野生动物，从那时开始她在自己家附近喂养野鹿。

Time and time again, consumers are told that fish is a safe, healthy source of lean protein and fatty acids, but do the health benefits outweigh the toxin risk?

消费者被一次次的告知，鱼类是安全的，富含健康的瘦蛋白和脂肪酸，但是这些健康物质能够有中毒危险吗？

By staying lean, however, the frequent collection of team-wide feedback actually minimizes the time spent heading down the wrong path.

通过保持精益，经常收集团队的反馈会最小化走错路浪费的时间。

The health-care costs and lost production caused by obesity are driving American manufacturers to locate to countries where the population, for the time being, still has a lean and hungry look.

由肥胖导致的高医疗成本和低生产效率迫使美国工厂迁往那些人们暂时瘦弱而且看起来很饥饿的国家。