a judge with maybe just a few days to ponder has scant chance of learning the science well enough to confidently decide who is right and who is wrong.
对于法官而言,他只有寥寥数天的时间来衡量,因此,很难有时间对该门学科有充分的了解,无法有把握地做出是非曲直的判断。
after heading two major tech companies, autodesk (adsk) and yahoo--there「s scant chance she」ll run another, she admitted to me last week.
上周,她对我坦言,执掌欧特克(autodesk)和雅虎两大科技巨头之后,她很难再有机会领导其他公司。
with unemployment rising and real incomes squeezed there is scant chance of that happening.
但随着失业率上升和实际收入的缩水,实现上述两点的机会不大。