Scant

(verb.) limit in quality or quantity.

校对:莎娜

• I had scant luggage to take with me to London, for little of the little I possessed was adapted to my new station. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• It is no sandy plain, nor any circumscribed and scant oasis I seem to realize. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• You would think it romantic to be walking with a person fat and scant o' breath if I were Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Yeobright remained in his study, sitting over the open books; but the work of those hours was miserably scant. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I am reasonable, answered Front-de-Boeuf, and if silver be scant, I refuse not gold. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• When he could get no other fuel he turned to the scant furnishings of his house. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Lack of control of natural forces means that a scant number of natural objects enter into associated behavior. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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