1·She began to berate the police for paying scant attention to the theft from her car.
她开始严厉斥责警方对她车内东西失窃一案关注不足。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·Your attachment to substandard lodgings and scant tuition in Dover is clearly irrational.
你留恋多佛低于标准的住宿条件和不足的奖学金，这明显是非理性的。
3·The alternatives are depressing and scant.
可供选择的其他职业沉闷而不足。
4·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。
5·The picture on global growth is increasingly split. Big emerging economies are in the best shape, with strong growth in domestic demand and scant spare capacity.
全球增长前景被逐渐撕裂。大的新兴经济体有着强有力的国内增长需求和不足备用能力，处于最佳形态。
1·Scant attention has been paid to many of the dubious social and economic assumptions that underlie the plan.
人们对该计划背后的许多可疑的社会和经济假设缺乏关注。
2·To be efficient, they put very little work into each message and therefore pay scant attention to each woman's profile.
为了效率，他们在每一条信息上几乎不花心思，也因此对每个女人的简介缺乏关注。
3·American moviegoers have long shown scant interest in subtitled films, with some rare exceptions being Asian martial arts movies such as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Hero" and "Fearless."
美国电影发烧友长期对于看带字幕的电影缺乏兴趣，除了极个别的亚洲武侠电影，像《卧虎藏龙》、《英雄》、《霍元甲》。
4·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。
5·Scant consolation though it might be, there are other victims-including Russia's ancient scapegoat, the Jews.
虽然可能是这些清洁工人缺乏一些必要的安慰，但是不止他们，还有其它的受害者：其中就包括俄国以前的替罪羊——犹太人。
1·It is disheartening to find out that all we have to work with is these five drugs, and the evidence on these is scant.
我们对这五种药物的研究结果是非常令人沮丧的，其证据也是不充分的。