Examples of benefits or costs of the current concentration wave are scanty.

目前证明股合并浪潮是带来利还是弊的实例并不多。

He has to deduce what he can from the few scanty clues available.

他们必须根据现有的不充的线索进行推理。

Barney knew scantiest amount of French and not a syllable of anything else.

巴尼只懂一点点法文，其他外语一个字都不会。

The Wonderful Supper As Baucis had said, there was but a scanty supper for two hungry travelers.

美好的晚餐正如柏西斯所言，只能给两位饥饿的旅行者提供仅有的一点粗劣晚饭。

It was a gloomy company that huddled under the dripping trees to eat their scanty supper.

是一支情绪低落的队伍，他们聚集在大树下，那少得可怜的晚餐。

Mr He's work appears to have had the scantiest oversight and a vice-minister says it violates regulations.

贺建的工作似乎有个大的疏忽，一位副部长做法违反了规定。

My mom and I had pooled our resources to supplement my winter wardrobe, but it was still scanty.

我和妈妈已经把我们的钱凑起来，给我新添了冬天穿的衣服了，但还是没多少。

Living in cramped, shabby apartments, working at dreary jobs, standing in long lines for scarves and scanty consumer goods.

他们住在狭窄简陋的公寓里，工作枯燥无聊，还经常需要排长队才能拿到围巾和匮乏的消费品。

The scantiest vegetation can scarcely draw nutriment from the ungenial soil, and animals shun the dreary and shelterless wilds.

稀少的植物艰难地从坚硬的土壤中吸取营养，而动物则避开些沉寂的，毫无遮蔽的荒野。

But he bore all with patience, and ate, without complaint, the scanty crusts given him every day for dinner, while his companions often fared sumptuously.

杜霍布赖特耐心地忍受着一切，毫无怨言地承受下来，每天晚餐只给他很少的圆包，而他的同伴则吃得很丰盛。

They were traveling lighter now than when they arrived in Atlanta. Most of them carried only a carpetbag and a scanty lunch done up in a bandana handkerchief.

比起他们来亚特兰大时，现在的旅行已轻松得多，他们大多只携一个提包和一顿用手帕包着的简便午餐。

He went out of the room calling 'Ewing! ' and returned in a few minutes accompanied by an embarrassed, slightly worn young man with shell-rimmed glasses and scanty blonde hair.

他走出屋子喊了一声" 艾温" ，又过了几钟才回来，带来一个难为情的、容有点憔翠的年轻人，一副玳瑁边眼镜，稀稀的金黄色头发。

Ferrier carried the bag of gold and notes, Jefferson Hope had the scanty provisions and water, while Lucy had a small bundle containing a few of her more valued possessions.

费瑞厄提着钱袋；杰弗逊·侯波带着不多的口粮和饮水；露茜提着一个小包，里边有她的一些珍贵物品。

That is a breathtakingly scanty period though it must be said that by this point in our history we did have thousands of years of practice behind us in the matter of irreversible eliminations.

是一段令人吃惊的短暂时间尽管我们必须说，到我们历史的个时候，我们在不可逆转地灭绝其他物方已经干了数千年。

Lily and the children could follow more slowly, harnessing the horse and cart to convey their scanty possessions. The stuff in the cart would include a kettle, dishes, blankets, a chair, a bucket and an axe.

莉莉和孩子们可以在后慢慢地跟，坐马车把他们仅有的一点家产运来。车上的那些东西包括一个壶、一个盘子、毯子、一把椅子、一个提桶和一把斧头。