That, however, is scant comfort to its increasingly anxious neighbours.

然而这理由并不足以抚慰它忧心憧憧的邻国们。

But there is scant evidence that the process is dangerous.

但是要证明该项工艺的危险性还是有待进一步考证。

We were scant of breath after the lengthy climb.

长时间的运动后，我们感觉呼吸困难。

Even among mortal creators, scant few were women.

即使是凡人导演中间，也很少有女性的身影。

It grows in areas where sunlight is scant and competition is intense.

它生长在少的地方且竞争激烈。

Before his election Lech (like his brother) displayed scant interest in them.

在当选总统前，莱赫就像他哥哥一样，显示出对外交事务缺乏兴趣。

But again, the information that we've been receiving has been fairly scant at this stage.

但是，我要再强调一遍，目前我们得到的信息非常有限。

But the regime has a solution: putting its scant resources into military power.

将其匮乏的资源用于军事武器。

Yeobright remained in his study, sitting over the open books; but the work of those hours was miserably scant.

约布赖特待在他的书房里，面对翻开的书坐着；但这几个小时里做的事却少得可怜。

Warner was a computer consultant with a scant criminal record. A single marijuana possession charge dated back to 1978.

华纳是一名电，很少有犯罪记录。1978年就有一起非法持有大麻的指控。

If the educational equipment which Gerald brought to America was scant, he did not even know it.

到美国来之前，杰拉尔德没有受过多少教育，可是他对此并不怎么有自知之明。

For the past year, prices at the wholesale level excluding food and energy had risen by just a scant 1.1%.

去年，除了食品和能源以外，批发价格上升了近1.1%。

Sometimes they threw bits of food, and got scant thanks; sometimes a mischievous pebble, and got a shower of stones and abuse.

有时，他们给他扔点儿食物，但却很少得到感谢；有时，他们恶作剧地向他扔块鹅卵石，他就还之以无数石块，且破口大骂。

So many are processed every day that there is scant time to delve into detail, let alone study cases in advance.

每天处理的案件过多以至于缺乏时间加以深究，更不必说提前研究案情。

Poverty is the norm . Scant attention is paid to their particular cultural interests and heritage .

贫困是他们标准的生活方式， 对他们独特的文化兴趣与传统很少给予关注。

But many of India's weaker banks, saddled with legacy problems and uncertain loan losses, are likely to attract scant interest from investors.

但印度很多实力较弱的银行，背负着遗留题和不确定的贷款损失，他们可能难以吸引投资者的兴趣。

The " missing millennia" because she says archaeological data is scant in that part of Southeast Asia, from 4,000 to 6,000 years ago.

她称之为“缺失的千年”是因为，东南亚该地区4000至6000年前的考古资料缺失。

Georges Cuvier, an early palaeontologist, made his reputation by predicting the anatomies of newly discovered fossil species from scant evidence, such as single bones.

早期古生物学家乔治·居维叶能在实据不足的情况下（如单一的骨骼）预测出新发现的化石物种的躯干结构，这使他在业界声名显著。

Scant research has explored the practice of swimming in cold water, but there is some evidence that it invigorates the body in unique ways.

目前，很少有人研究冰泳这种做法，但有证据表明，冰泳能够以独特的方式让身体活跃起来。

That lady herself played the organ for the choir at the Methodist Church and, as an organist, had scant respect for harps or harpists.

这位太太本人是卫理公会教堂唱诗班的风琴伴奏，作为一个演奏风琴的人，她对竖琴和演奏竖琴的人是看不上的。