scant是什么意思_音标_用法_例句

简单释义：

adj. 一丁点的；微小的；不足的；欠缺的

v. 缩减；克扣；吝惜；不客气地对待

adv. 几乎不[没有]

网络 缺乏的；限制；节省

完整释义：

adj.

1.缺乏的,不足的,不够的
2.缺乏,不到;稀稀拉拉
3.微,一点,很少
4.不屑
5.恰好够的
6.将近的
7.俭约的,节省的;吝啬的

v.

1.不客气地对待
2.限制,缩减
3.克扣;吝惜

adv.

1.〔美方〕好容易才,几乎不[没有]

例句：

1. 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。

2. 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。

3. 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。

4. 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。

5. The experience when I begin to do a website is scant, did not do enough market research with respect to mount a horse.
   我开始做网站时经验不足，并没有做够市场调查就上马了。

6. 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。

7. 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。

8. At a large US bank, a Java team was asked to enhance a legacy application which had scant documentation.
   在一家大型的美国银行中，企业要求Java团队对缺少文档的遗留应用程序进行改善。