1、His grandfather made a scanty living by practising feng shui for people
他的祖父靠給人看風(fēng)水勉強(qiáng)維持生計。

2、The quality or condition of being scanty or meager.
微薄，稀少缺乏的或不足的情況或性質(zhì)

3、Thee ant is the most industrious animal, but it most be scanty of words. — Franklin.
沒有任何動物比螞蟻更勤奮，然而它卻最沉默寡言。——富蘭克林。

4、There is scanty evidence to support their accusations.
他們的指控證據(jù)不足。

5、The farmer 's financial difficulties were caused By a scanty harvest.
這個農(nóng)民的經(jīng)濟(jì)困難是因?yàn)?/a>收成不足造成的。

6、These appear when sunlight strikes tiny particles too scanty to appear as clouds.
當(dāng)陽光照射到稀疏得如同云彩一般的微小顆粒上，云隙光便隨之出現(xiàn)。

7、As a matter of fact, some of the highest-stress jobs pay surprisingly scanty salaries.
其實(shí)，這些高壓力的工作，工資卻是令人驚奇地低。

8、So far, what scanty evidence we have points to two suspects.
目前，我們指向兩名嫌犯的證據(jù)太少。

9、He was a person of scanty means
他家境清貧。

10、He tossed it off the pan on to a plate and let the scanty brown gravy trickle over it.
他拿著鍋，將腰子一顛，讓它落在盤子上，并且把剩下的那一點(diǎn)褐色汁子滴在上面。

11、He has to deduce what he can from the few scanty clues available.
他們不得不從獲得的稀少而貧乏的線索中盡其所能地進(jìn)行推斷。

12、The rainfall was rather scanty this month.
這個月的雨量不足。

13、The crew started to eke out there scanty supply of fresh water.
船員們開始節(jié)約使用儲量不多的淡水。

14、Evidence for what exactly happened and why is scanty and needs careful weighing.
我們?nèi)狈﹃P(guān)于究竟發(fā)生了什么和為何發(fā)生的證據(jù)，僅有的一些也需要仔細(xì)掂量。

15、The stroma may be scanty or myxoid, as in this case.
間質(zhì)可以很少或呈粘液樣，正如此例。

16、The furniture was scanty and the coverings worn to the thread.
家具很少，桌椅套子又都破爛不堪。

17、The beggar shivered in his scanty clothes.
乞丐穿著單薄，凍得發(fā)抖。

18、Growth in 2004 was sluggish, yet above the scanty 0.3% of 2003.
2004年的經(jīng)濟(jì)增長緩慢，但仍超過2003年0.3%。

19、a scanty bikini
剛夠遮體的比基尼泳裝

20、I have only a scanty knowledge of world affairs.
我對于國際事務(wù)只是一知半解。

21、Much of the scanty information available comes from Chinese records.
可獲得的極少數(shù)資料大多來自中國的記載。

22、These gains, however, were scanty compared with the Republicans' victories.
然而，這些收獲與共和黨的勝利是不可比擬的。

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