scanty

英 [ˈskænti]

美 [ˈskænti]

adj. 不足的; 欠缺的; 太少的; 小而暴露身体的

复数：scanties　最高级：scantiest　

BNC.19368 / COCA.25084

牛津词典

adj.

不足的；欠缺的；太少的
too little in amount for what is needed
1. Details of his life are scanty.
  关于他的生平，详细资料不多。
小而暴露身体的
very small and not covering much of your body
1. a scanty bikini
  遮不住多少身体的比基尼泳装

ADJ-GRADED 偏小的;偏少的;不足的;欠缺的
You describe something asscantywhen there is less of it than you think there should be.
1. So far, what scanty evidence we have points to two suspects.
  迄今为止，我们掌握的能够指证两个嫌疑犯的证据少得可怜。
ADJ-GRADED (衣服)暴露的
If someone is wearingscantyclothing, he or she is wearing clothes which are sexually revealing.
1. ...a model in scanty clothing.
  衣着暴露的模特

noun

short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural)
Synonym:pantiepantystep-in

adj

lacking in amplitude or quantity
1. a bare livelihood
2. a scanty harvest
3. a spare diet
Synonym:bare(a)spare

His knowledge of mathematics is superficial and scanty.
他的数学知识浅显、贫乏。
His grandfather made a scanty living by practising feng shui for people.
他的祖父靠给人看风水勉强维持生计。
Even so since quantitative data were scanty and the photon so radical an idea it remained unaccepted by many.
虽然如此，由于定量的数据还不足，而光子又是这样激进的一个概念，很多人仍然不愿接受它。
The rainfall was rather scanty this month.
这个月的雨量不足。
Scanty and insufficient suppers those, and innocent of meat, as of most other sauce to wretched bread.
晚饭不多，量不足，没有肉，也没有别的佐料，只有劣质的面包。
Information is again very scanty from low-and middle-income countries and no data are available at national or regional levels.
在低收入和中等收入的国家信息来源较少，许多国家或地区无数据。
From scanty news published in their mountain newspapers, some few cadres thought the Russians could not hold out.
从在山区发行的报纸所登载的点滴消息中，少数干部认为俄国人坚持不下去了。
Our supply coffee and tea is scanty.
我们的咖啡，茶供应量不足。
The information available is scanty.
可得到的信息寥寥无几。
To this scanty inventory of material wealth, ought to be added their land;
还应把土地计入这个贫乏的物质财富清单；