scant
a. 不充分的, 不足的 vt. 减少, 吝啬, 限制, 藐视, 忽略
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教材释义与例句
减少；节省；限制
不足的；缺乏的；勉强够的
释义与例句
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A small piece or quantity.
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Scarcity; lack.
Even if labour were diverted to a great extent from our grand staple, the cotton manufacture, we are not prepared to admit that the country would be worse off. The worst that could happen in such a case would be, that for a few years, during the inordinate progress of railways, our population would run short of shirts and shifts. If the woollen manufacture be the theme, there would be a scant of coats and petticoats; or if the earthenware manufacture, there must be fewer teapots and pipkins.
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A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level.
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A sheet of stone.
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A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size.
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To limit in amount or share; to stint.
及物to scant someone in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries
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To fail, or become less; to scantle.
不及物The wind scants.
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Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager.
a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment
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Slightly diminished; just short of the amount described.
烹饪a scant cup of sugar
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Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
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With difficulty; scarcely; hardly.
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Very little, very few.
After his previous escapades, Mary had scant reason to believe John.
(as pronoun) The failure of this project has scant to do with me.
词汇关系
词源
Adjective and determiner from Middle English scant, from Old Norse skamt, neuter of skammr (“short”), from Proto-Germanic *skammaz (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱem- (“mutilated, hornless”). Verb from Middle English scanten, from the adjective. Noun and adverb from Middle English scant, from the adjective.
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