英语释义

• limit in quality or quantity

• supply sparingly and with restricted quantities;

  "sting with the allowance"

• work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially

• less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so;

  "a light pound"

  "a scant cup of sugar"

  "regularly gives short weight"

片语

scant water节省水

Scant hair稀毛

scant semen精少

scant scan因为稀少

scant displacement不足位移

scant of缺乏

scant sweat汗少

scant menstruation月经过少

scant eyebrows眉毛稀少

scant chance机会很小

英汉例句

• the thing that strikes me the most is their scant understanding of rup concepts and principles.

  令我惊讶的是大部分人缺乏对rup概念和原则的了解。

• often the developers who wrote these applications have left the company, leaving behind only scant documentation.

  通常，编写这些应用程序的开发人员已经离开企业，只留下不完全的文档。

• innocent men were picked up on the basis of scant evidence and in many cases subjected to abuse and torture.

  明明是缺乏证据，但无辜的人还是被抓进关塔那摩，并且他们其中不少人还惨遭酷刑虐待。

• perhaps muratov’s guide illuminated the church with a torch, but now it’s simply dark in here, and whatever scant light makes its way through the windows is blocked by tourists’ backs.

  也许穆拉托夫的导游指南似火炬把这座教堂给照得明亮了，但现在这里却漆黑一片，从窗户射进来的微弱的光线被游客的后背给遮挡住了。

• the liberals will have little chance to shine in the coalition, which still has more than two years to run. mrs merkel has modest ambitions and scant money to spare.

  本届德国政府还有两年多任期，但是自民党却很难在联盟内有所作为了，毕竟总理默克尔没有什么野心，也缺乏资金。

• much of the recovery is thanks to swingeing spending cuts and tax hikes, often imposed at the behest of outsiders such as the imf, and sometimes with scant regard for legality or democratic niceties.

  经济的恢复更多是由于开支的大量削减和税收的提高，这些都是由像国际货币基金组织等外部力量强加的，也许有时会缺少合法性或民主的考虑。

• with no more than minimal greek, the chinese have little to do with the local police, and get scant help when their cash or merchandise is stolen.

  除了和极少希腊人接触外，中国人和当地警察的联系也甚少，当他们的现金或商品被偷取时，他们从警察那里得到并不足够的帮助。

• george bush「s budget has scant chance of becoming law.

  要使预算成为法律，乔治.布什还胜算不足。

• for decades israel drilled for oil with scant success.

  数十年来，以色列在石油开采方面不算成功。

• with sunlight reaching spirit at a weak angle, the rover hibernates and uses the scant solar power to recharge batteries and heat itself to –40 degrees [fahrenheit].

  由于太阳光照射角度太小，「勇气号」只好休眠，用它能接收到的微弱太阳能来充电，将自身温度维持在华氏40度。

• government forces, they say, have shown scant regard for civilians.

  他们认为，政府没有给予平民足够的重视。

• heatstroke can strike with scant warning, even after as little as a half hour if you are exercising hard, doctors say.

  医生们说，中暑的发生，有时候很少有征兆，甚至可能在你剧烈运动半小时后就会发生。

• and there is scant lending available, even if investors wanted to gear up their portfolios in these volatile times.

  在市场动蕩时期，即使投资人想在投资组合中加入这类产品，可借出的款项也是有限的。

• georges cuvier, an early palaeontologist, made his reputation by predicting the anatomies of newly discovered fossil species from scant evidence, such as single bones.

  早年的古生物学家乔治斯?卡维尔就以从不充分的依据（如骨骼）推断新发现化石物种的解剖结构而着名。

• despite pledges at the landmark 1995 beijing women」s conference to boost the number of women in government, progress has been scant and slow.

  尽管在里程碑式的1995年北京世界妇女大会上信誓旦旦要增加政府中的女性人数，但进展有限而缓慢。

• in the scant century and a half since then, we「ve bumped atmospheric carbon dioxide up to 390 ppm.

  在不到一个半世纪后，我们把大气中的二氧化碳猛增到百万分之390。

• its scant natural resources and tradition of openness point the economy towards trade. besides, germany just isn’t that into services, which have displaced industry in other countries.

  其匮乏的自然资源和传统的开放性要求经济体制倾向于商业，此外德国对其他国家已取代工业的服务业不太感兴趣。

• but these inflows have been scant in recent months as investors globally have stayed away from risky assets like emerging-market stocks.

  但这些资金流入在近几个月很少，因为全世界投资者都避开了新兴市场股票等高风险资产。

• the only problem with this argument is that there is scant evidence to support it in the history of arab-israeli peacemaking.

  以上论证的唯一的纰漏就在于在巴以和平进程的历史上从未有足够证据能够为这种观点提供支持。

• implementing secure midp applications is much harder, due to the cldc configuration」s limited mathematical functionalities and the scant processing power of many of the underlying devices.

  实现安全midp应用程序要困难得多，因为cldc配置的数学计算能力有限并且许多底层设备的处理能力不足。

• japan has scant natural resources.

  日本自然资源缺乏。

• surviving on the scant rain that falls on the high desert, the surrounding natural scrubland uses far less water. the scrubland, shown in the upper left corner of the image, is tan and pale blue.

  为了在降水稀少的高地沙漠存活下来，周围自然形态的灌木丛则消耗很少的水分，可以看到这些分布在图片左上部的灌木丛是黄褐色和灰蓝色的。

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