Scanty
['skæntɪ] or ['skænti]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Wanting amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant.
(a.) Somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a scanty supply of words; a scanty supply of bread.
(a.) Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious.
校對:朗达
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Insufficient, short, narrow, slender, meagre, lean, scant, deficient, not plentiful, not enough.
克莱奥校對
同義詞及反義詞：
[See REPROACH]
整理:华莱士
例句/造句/用法:
- I began with such scanty sources of information as were at my own disposal. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- And Gudrun could see he was making some slow confidence to Ursula, unwilling, a slow, grudging, scanty self-revelation. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Very quietly, she placed a chair before the scanty fire, and sat down in it, drawing her shawl about her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The whole indecorous threadbare ruin, from the broken shoes to the prematurely-grey scanty hair, grovelled. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Presently in the fourth and fifth centuries the weather grew drier and the grass became scanty, and the nomads stirred afresh. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- There was his little scanty travelling clothes upon him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- When Davy was about sixteen years old, his father died, leaving the widow and her five children, of whom Humphry was the eldest, with v ery scanty provision. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- I think I should have declined had I been poorer than I wasand with scantier fund of resource, more stinted narrowness of future prospect. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The only evidence of her last return now, were the scantier moveables in his room, and the grayer hair upon his head. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Things hang together, he added, looking on the floor and moving his feet uneasily with a sense that words were scantier than thoughts. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
整理:雪麗