Scanty

(a.) Wanting amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant.

(a.) Somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a scanty supply of words; a scanty supply of bread.

(a.) Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious.

校对:朗达

• I began with such scanty sources of information as were at my own disposal. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• And Gudrun could see he was making some slow confidence to Ursula, unwilling, a slow, grudging, scanty self-revelation. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Very quietly, she placed a chair before the scanty fire, and sat down in it, drawing her shawl about her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The whole indecorous threadbare ruin, from the broken shoes to the prematurely-grey scanty hair, grovelled. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Presently in the fourth and fifth centuries the weather grew drier and the grass became scanty, and the nomads stirred afresh. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There was his little scanty travelling clothes upon him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• When Davy was about sixteen years old, his father died, leaving the widow and her five children, of whom Humphry was the eldest, with v ery scanty provision. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• I think I should have declined had I been poorer than I wasand with scantier fund of resource, more stinted narrowness of future prospect. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The only evidence of her last return now, were the scantier moveables in his room, and the grayer hair upon his head. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Things hang together, he added, looking on the floor and moving his feet uneasily with a sense that words were scantier than thoughts. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

整理:雪莉