1.一丁点的;微小的;不足的;欠缺的hardly any; not very much and not as much as there should be
I paid scant attention to what she was saying.我没大注意她在说什么。
The firefighters went back into the house with scant regard for their own safety.消防员奋不顾身地返回那座房子。
For a moment, I wondered whether they planned to tie me up to be baptized yet again, but most of them took scant notice of my panic.
有一阵,我想他们是否打算把我捆起来再做一次洗礼,但大多数人对我的痛苦视而不见。
In Bangladesh, she had been given scant medical care; in Washington, a counselor implied that she was to blame for the attack.
在孟加拉国,她没有能获得足够的医疗护理;在华盛顿,一名顾问暗示她应对攻击事件负责。
The other bit of news with these cranks, as well as the Next and SIXC, is the new bottom bracket which comes in at a scant 85g.
与这些曲柄新闻其他位,以及下一步SIXC,是新中轴的排在一个缺乏85克。
The position of the Moon and its resultant gravity pull has scant influence on the matter.
月球的位置及其引力拉扯的结果在这件事上影响力不大。
And the scant and skimpy equipment which jogging demands must make it a marketer's least favored form of recreation.
跑步只需要少量简单的装备,这就使它成为商品推销商最不喜欢的娱乐形式。
And the scant equipment which jogging demands must make it a marketer's least favored form of recreation.
慢跑带动的寥寥无几的装备需求恐怕是商人最看不上眼的买卖。
The regular entrance of thirty-five dollars a week to one who has endured scant allowances for several years is a demoralising thing.
每星期35块钱的固定收入,对一个几年来一直忍受着靠几个零花钱过日子的人,是会产生消极影响的。
My wife sits up in bed with her tablet in one hand and the other stroking our dogs, while paying her husband scant attention.
我妻子坐在床上时,一手摆弄着手机,另一只手则抚摸着家里的狗狗,对她的老公却是视若无人。
The Daily Telegraph newspaper said the drawing of Sarah Brown "bears scant resemblance to her" .
《每日电讯报》称,莎拉•布朗的肖像画“和她本人不怎么像”。
His daughters had but scant respect for his theory and were perhaps constantly upbraiding him for his infatuation.
他的女儿们对于他的理论只报以微小的尊重,也许更常埋怨他的昏头昏脑。
He had never run anything in his entire life. He had a scant public record, but oddly this worked to his advantage.
他一生没有做过什么,鲜有公共档案,但这些却奇怪地成为了他的优势。
His hair was scant and grey and his face , when the waves of expression had passed over it, had a ravaged look .
灰色的头发稀稀拉拉;而且,一阵兴奋的表情消失后,就能看出他面容憔悴。
Wes pauses over his sandwich. His eyes reproach me for my scant faith in the magic of Christmas.
维斯不再揉捏三明治,但他的眼神因为我对圣诞魔法信心不足在责怪我。
By dint of effort she contrived to get a glimpse of the light of truth here and there, and hoped that scant ray might suffice to guide her.
她设法靠自己的努力来多少了解一点事实真相,希望所了解的那一点端倪足以指引她前进。
While Benson continued to fill in the scant details, Edwards concluded that an assassination might prove an advantageous event.
当本森继续补充那些并不充足的细节时,爱德华兹推断出这场暗杀将是有利事件。
Most have made scant advancements in the face of sophisticated global competitors and a stubborn lack of name recognition.
大多数公司则没有多大进展,它们既要面对老练的全球竞争者,又要面对品牌难以得到认可的现实。
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。
Coming off Monday's sell-off, investors seem to have scant appetite to own more stocks.
经过周一的抛售潮,投资者似乎没有什么兴趣增持股票。
If the educational equipment which Gerald brought to America was scant, he did not even know it.
到美国来之前,杰拉尔德没有受过多少教育,可是他对此并不怎么有自知之明。
A scant five years ago the only time you saw Robert Downey Jr. getting big play in your newspaper came when he was on a perp walk.
而大约不到5年前,小罗伯特·唐尼唯一一次获得新闻报纸的大版面,是因为他被警察游街示众。
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