scant是什麼意思_音標_用法_例句

簡單釋義：

adj. 一丁點的；微小的；不足的；欠缺的

v. 縮減；剋扣；吝惜；不客氣地對待

adv. 幾乎不[沒有]

網路 缺乏的；限制；節省

完整釋義：

adj.

1.缺乏的,不足的,不夠的
2.缺乏,不到;稀稀拉拉
3.微,一點,很少
4.不屑
5.恰好夠的
6.將近的
7.儉約的,節省的;吝嗇的

v.

1.不客氣地對待
2.限制,縮減
3.剋扣;吝惜

adv.

1.〔美方〕好容易才,幾乎不[沒有]

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.
   而大約不到5年前，小羅伯特·唐尼唯一一次獲得新聞報紙的大版面，是因為他被警察遊街示眾。

2. If the educational equipment which Gerald brought to America was scant, he did not even know it.
   到美國來之前，傑拉爾德沒有受過多少教育，可是他對此並不怎麼有自知之明。

3. He had never run anything in his entire life. He had a scant public record, but oddly this worked to his advantage.
   他一生沒有做過什麼，鮮有公共檔案，但這些卻奇怪地成為了他的優勢。

4. In Bangladesh, she had been given scant medical care; in Washington, a counselor implied that she was to blame for the attack.
   在孟加拉國，她沒有能獲得足夠的醫療護理；在華盛頓，一名顧問暗示她應對攻擊事件負責。

5. The experience when I begin to do a website is scant, did not do enough market research with respect to mount a horse.
   我開始做網站時經驗不足，並沒有做夠市場調查就上馬了。

6. Often the developers who wrote these applications have left the company, leaving behind only scant documentation.
   通常，編寫這些應用程序的開發人員已經離開企業，只留下不完全的文檔。

7. Most have made scant advancements in the face of sophisticated global competitors and a stubborn lack of name recognition.
   大多數公司則沒有多大進展，它們既要面對老練的全球競爭者，又要面對品牌難以得到認可的現實。

8. At a large US bank, a Java team was asked to enhance a legacy application which had scant documentation.
   在一家大型的美國銀行中，企業要求Java團隊對缺少文檔的遺留應用程序進行改善。