中国人有个成语叫“残羹冷炙”。
The Chinese have a fixed phrase"cold leftovers".

它只能走到一边，等待残羹冷炙。
It must step aside and wait for scraps.

桌上是一顿美餐的残羹冷炙，这顿美餐是前天洗劫镇上所有的商店后得到的。
One the table were the ramains of a splendid dinner, to procure which all the shops in town had been ransacked the day before.

除了一些残羹冷炙（主要是些汽车制造商和航空公司），他们可以染指的近乎没有。
Except for the odd scrap of rotting meat (mainly among car-parts makers and airlines) they have had little to sink their talons into.

简介：不要等到需要套上一件救生衣才去处理那些隐藏在冰箱深处的神秘的残羹冷炙。
Intro:Don't wait until you need a hazmat suit to approach those mystery leftovers hiding in the back of the fridge.

这使得勘探美国90%的陆上油井的独立公司只能去开发大公司留给他们的残羹冷炙。
This left the independent explorers, which drill 90% of onshore wells in the country, to pursue what was left.

简介 ：不要等到需要套上一件救生衣才去处理那些隐藏在冰箱深处的神秘的残羹冷炙。
Intro :Don't wait until you need a hazmat suit to approach those mystery leftovers hiding in the back of the fridge.

我们周围的万千之众都在生活中激流勇进，奋力搏击，依靠异国赏赐的残羹冷炙只是食不果腹。
The millions that around us are rushing into life, can not be fed on the mere remains of foreign harvests.

机舱里，小碟子里还盛着吃了一半的基辅鸡或俄式炒牛肉丝，空调忙着去除残羹冷炙发出的气味。
In the cabin, the little trays of everybody's Chicken Kiev or Beef Stroganoff entrees are half eaten with the air conditioner cleaning up any leftover food smell.

对花栗鼠和土拨鼠而言也是如此，它们出来和人类玩耍，有时候带走露营地或游戏地带人们的残羹冷炙。
So this is so for Chipmunks and Prairie Dogs, who come out to play with humans, sometimes taking of one's leftovers in the campgrounds and parklands.

我觉得在冰箱里搜刮残羹冷炙﹐那些远远超过妈妈所谓“次日最佳期“的剩菜﹐都比这些外叫食物好得多了。
I did not think of it as an acceptable alternative even to scratching around in the refrigerator for some leftovers that were way beyond what my mother would have considered their second-day peak.

上帝又创造出狗然后告诉它：“你将在人类的居所周围时刻保持警惕，你是人类最亲密的夥伴。你只能吃人类的残羹冷炙，你的寿命是25年。
Then God created the dog and told him, "You will hold vigilance over the dwelling of Man. To him you will be his greatest companion. Youwill eat his table scrapes and live for 25 years."

当时我遇到了顶尖的电子设备制造商，这些公司不想看到他们的客户去接受数字的残羹冷炙，如果数字和创意的内容没有得到认同，这样的现象则是不可避免的。
These companies don't want their customers to be served a diet of digital dross, and yet that will be the inevitable consequence if the worth of content and creativity are not appreciated.

他们认为本省资源丰富——渔业、林业、矿产和现在发现的石油——而外人一直靠这些资源大肆敛财，有时并非通过公平的手段，而给这里留下的仅仅是残羹冷炙。
They see their province as teeming with resources—fish, forests, minerals and now oil—that outsiders have profited from, sometimes unfairly, leaving only crumbs behind.